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How to play board games online with your friends

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Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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For those with a more wargaming lean, VASSAL is an amazing toolkit. Full Java app, and modules for hundreds of games all the way back to the original version of Tactics from AH. I've personally done a bit of improvements on Fifth Frontier War, from ye olde Traveller universe.

Note that it only runs under Java 8.

But yeah, it's got modules for wargames as well as cards and probably others. It's free, and most mods are too.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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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…

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

I find the inability to have more than one person 'speaking' at a time the most unnatural thing about videoconferencing. Is there any solution?

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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I've been working on a vtt for DND5E for the past couple of years. You can text/video chat, create characters, maps and all of the essentials! Please take a look!

https://imetatroll.com

If you really like what I am doing, I have a twitter account and a patreon account. Thanks!

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

#124

I've been working on a vtt for DND5E for the past couple of years. You can text/video chat, create characters, maps and all of the essentials! Please take a look! https://imetatroll.com If you really like what I am doing, I have a twitter account and a patreon account. Thanks!

This looks great. I love the font! A 2 minute screencast overview video showing the interface would go a long way to making me want to sign up.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Austin has a local board game Meetup group that's shifted entirely to Tabletop Simulator during this time. It's great and definitely maintains the best feeling of playing a physical board game. I'm surprised that the author didn't mention the hundreds of games that you can download for free in the Steam Workshop as mods. Not all of them work flawlessly, so you have to test things out beforehand. However, the almost u…

I skipped mentioning the workshop mods because of the huge variation in quality. A follow up post could go through a bunch of mods and recommend some good ones, though!

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

#126

I've been working on a vtt for DND5E for the past couple of years. You can text/video chat, create characters, maps and all of the essentials! Please take a look! https://imetatroll.com If you really like what I am doing, I have a twitter account and a patreon account. Thanks!

This looks great. I love the font! A 2 minute screencast overview video showing the interface would go a long way to making me want to sign up.

Thank you! I will be working on an introductory video soon :)

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

#127

I've been working on a vtt for DND5E for the past couple of years. You can text/video chat, create characters, maps and all of the essentials! Please take a look! https://imetatroll.com If you really like what I am doing, I have a twitter account and a patreon account. Thanks!

This looks great. I love the font! A 2 minute screencast overview video showing the interface would go a long way to making me want to sign up.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCCzEAhkVqsU1CFTGDKzR8A

I do have two older videos if you are interested!

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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This is a nice list for playing with people already familiar with euro games. If you’re looking for more social games that can be picked up by casual gamers, I’ve been keeping a running list of sites I’ve used at the bottom of https://blog.metamorphium.com/2020/03/19/play-from-home/

The list is focused primarily on games that are good for remote team building, but work well for any casual group.

So far, games include Secret Hitler, Codenames, Love Letter, Spyfall, Jackbox, Avalon, One Night Werewolf, and some others.

Let me know if you have more links in this category of games!

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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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

Not sure which country you are in, or if you care at all but you might want to avoid using trademarked game titles like Boggle to avoid any legal disputes. Perhaps a subtle nod like Bogly or something would be enough to let people know the general game...

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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This looks great. I love the font! A 2 minute screencast overview video showing the interface would go a long way to making me want to sign up.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCCzEAhkVqsU1CFTGDKzR8A I do have two older videos if you are interested!

Yeah, I love these! Definitely made me want to give it a try! Maybe embed them both the home page somewhere?
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