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Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by mariusz331 »

polishdude20 wrote: post #102
mariusz331 wrote: post #19

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

How are you guys managing the video? Is it peer to peer or is it being routed and encoded in a server first? Codenames needs at least four players to start, if it's p2p, have you noticed any lag or bandwidth problems?

Hey nice to meet another Polish dude! We use Twilio's Video SDK and their P2P rooms. This works fine for most users on desktops and good internet. When I play with friends in CA (I'm in NY), I don't experience any serious issues. Sometimes there's feedback when a user has their speakers blasting. Many of our users experience problems on mobile when there are a lot of players in the room. We're thinking about switching video providers to one with an affordable server option to improve the larger game rooms experience though.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by cozuya »

shawndrost wrote: post #79

Huge recommendation for http://netgames.io , they have Secret Hitler and Codenames and the UI makes sense.

There's my crap https://secrethitler.io. (because of some poor design decisions its capped for new players at around 250-300, there's also https://private.secrethitler.io and https://beta.secrethitler.io as well)

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by ollerac »

polishdude20 wrote: post #100
panphora wrote: post #70

A few friends and I invented a board game several years ago and we all thought this pandemic time would be a great opportunity to get back into it. I set up a real time board game maker online, called DoomGrid[0]. It's very basic and just uses Firebase to sync a bunch of game objects across everyone's game board. We also published the rules for our invented game recently[1] (warning, only 70% complete). We've now spe…

A friend and I made a game a few weeks ago and it's also just simply synchronizes the board using a server to store the game state. It's a Codenames clone you can find here http://those.codes

This looks great. Do you think your friend might add a short paragraph to the home page explaining what this does? Might engender a little more trust.

I'm totally gonna use this to play Codenames with my parents-in-law.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by sickrumbear »

mariusz331 wrote: post #91
sickrumbear wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is really awesome, would love an option to play the games without requiring cam/mic access (if friends are already bought into another tool like zoom), which could also may also allow more players (e.g. bigger teams for codenames)!

Thank you - really appreciate the feedback! Bigger codenames games get CRAZY and we understand the appeal and we want to be able to provide that experience too. We've been thinking about this problem a lot since many of our users play as couples (they share a screen) and they can't easily participate separately. We also understand the privacy issues and we'll be building an option to enter a game room with your audio…

That's great to hear! look forward to it

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by vehementi »

joemasilotti wrote: post #60
bluetidepro wrote: post #13

> 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.

Vast majority of people IME already use Discord for many things anyway

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by seeken »

Currently building a Splendor clone in Phoenix LiveView to teach myself Elixir... I had a rare moment of geek glee last night when I got the reserve-card functionality working, watching the cards disappear from the other screens. Afterwards I think I will do Azul in Blazor as a way of comparing the two frameworks.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by JoeDaDude »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #3

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…

By now everybody knows there are alternatives to Monopoly, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAWzA09XGxc

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by _ea1k »

kerkeslager wrote: post #69
vanattab wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It teaches you that the best values are at the extremes of real estate: you want to be either a luxury condo owner or a slum lord.” I thought the best properties in Monopoly where the opposite of this? It's my understanding that the best properties in Monopoly are orange followed by green then either red or yellow. Mostly the middle of the road properties. Orange is the best because it's approximately a 7 roll away…

That's a pretty good hypothesis. I honestly don't know. The reason I've preferred purple and (dark) blue is that they only require two properties to have a monopoly, so you can get monopolies sooner. It might be confirmation bias on my part, but my memory is that when I get these monopolies early it often prevents people from developing the orange properties. But like I said, I honestly don't know. You're probably ri…

I suspect that it depends on the play style of your opponents. A lot of people are too hesitant to trade in order to gain monopolies for multiple people early on. I've seen it play out this way with multiple parties not having monopoly and one party having one on Blue (or even purple in one case) and absolutely refusing to trade out of fear that it might help someone else.

The results are inevitable at that point.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by Splendor »

Has anyone found an easy solution for video chats with virtual games? I've tried Hangouts, Meet, Discord, and Zoom but they all seemed incomplete for my requirements.

My requirements:

- Host can share their screen and video camera at the same time without having to join the meeting from two different devices

- Desktop audio and host's audio can be heard by everyone on the call

- Gallery view in video chat so everyone can be seen while playing the game

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by durzagott »

ollerac wrote: post #56
bluetidepro wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord has video chat, as well: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500098275...

Oh, nice, I was completely unaware of this feature. I must have missed it because it's only available inside private or group DMs, not channels!

I think it's available in channels now: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004172105...
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