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I worked on a multiplayer version of the puzzle card game Set recently with a friend. It uses socket.io to communicate and Svelte for the front end. It’s a lot of fun to play with friends or alone: https://isaset.com/
This is really well done! Love the subtle animations and the ability to pick cards with the keyboard.
We're working on an app for social/board games with built in video chat: https://www.cyberspaces.app Current we offer: Boggle (just released yesterday, feedback is especially appreciated) https://www.cyberspaces.app/boggle Codenames (we call it Cyberterms) https://www.cyberspaces.app/cyberterms Liar's Dice https://www.cyberspaces.app/liarsdice Kings https://www.cyberspaces.app/kings
I worked on a multiplayer version of the puzzle card game Set recently with a friend. It uses socket.io to communicate and Svelte for the front end. It’s a lot of fun to play with friends or alone: https://isaset.com/
https://setwithfriends.com This is an implementation I have played with a bit, works well too!
Document version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10iOD7Wy_YU4NmkPU7ZH7YTrq...
Spreadsheet version: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FnsE0E3p_qVugf2Tu6dj...
Any similar suggestions for card games, especially Poker?
https://www.pokernow.club/ - Poker
https://www.trickstercards.com/ - including Spades, Bridge, Hearts
> In my experience, Zoom is the most consistent service and works on almost any device. One person in your group will need a paid subscription if you want to host an event longer than 40 minutes. Have to disagree on this, Discord has been a FAR better solution for my group of friends and I with our online game nights. We tried Zoom, Discord, Google Meet/Hangouts, and Discord has, by far, been the best UI/UX/clarity/q…
Does everyone need a Discord account to join the call? The big benefit (for me) of Zoom is that I can send a link to anyone and they don't need an account. Asking someone to sign up for a Board Game Arena account AND Discord would be too much.
I was hoping this was going to be how to modify boardgames to play with friends via webcam. We played Monopoly, and had good success - one board, setup a ghost player for the remote people. Remote people used parts of a set to keep track of their money and properties. Later several hours. >In my experience, Zoom is the most consistent service and works on almost any device. One person in your group will need a paid s…
"We played Monopoly, and had good success" Unlikely. What a tedious game
It is, by name, a game about being cutthroat towards other players and emphasizes that you optimize in the long-term purely for personal gain. This actually doesn't come naturally to a lot of people. Even the ones that seem to be more selfish often end up losing because they only optimize for short-term games and make it where nobody will trade with them.
Point is that a lot of those house rules slow down the main driver for the game: forcing people to go bankrupt. The house rules often put money back into the economy, which prolongs bankruptcy. To a large degree, the faster you can speed up bankruptcy, the more fun it is.
One of my personal favorite additions to the game was the Speed Die included in some versions. In a pretty elegant way, it greatly speeds up both the property acquisition and bankruptcy phases of the game.
Also as others are pointing out, the fun a of a board game is 90% dictated by the people you are playing with. That's not to say Monopoly is inherently or intuitively conducive to keeping the experience enjoyable, but it also can't completely prevent you from having fun. As evidenced by plenty of people, myself included, having immense enjoyment from it with the right group.
> In my experience, Zoom is the most consistent service and works on almost any device. One person in your group will need a paid subscription if you want to host an event longer than 40 minutes. Have to disagree on this, Discord has been a FAR better solution for my group of friends and I with our online game nights. We tried Zoom, Discord, Google Meet/Hangouts, and Discord has, by far, been the best UI/UX/clarity/q…
Does everyone need a Discord account to join the call? The big benefit (for me) of Zoom is that I can send a link to anyone and they don't need an account. Asking someone to sign up for a Board Game Arena account AND Discord would be too much.
The first version was created and tested in ~3 weeks. So far it's been fun and hilarious for groups of friends, family, or coworkers (4 to 10+ players, ages 5+).
Also open source[1]. Built with Typescript, React, Material UI, Apollo GraphQL, Hasura, Express, and Postgres; deployed on Render.
[0] Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902950
Thanks for sharing! I'll have to try some of those. I've been working on an online Codenames clone as a side project for virtual get-togethers. It is live and playable[0] and requires 4+ players. I'm planning on open-sourcing it as soon as I find the time. It's been a good excuse to practice some Vue.js and Websocket communication and a lot of fun! [0] http://codenames.seafish.io
We've made one here http://those.codes