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I'm surprised there is no mention of jackbox. It's setup to be played by a whole load of friends around the same tv, using their phones as handheld answer devices. We made it work over discord video chat with one person sharing their screen and was a hoot. Quiplash is a lot like cards against humanity and drawful is neat play on pictionary.
I wish there was a way to do this but with popular/classic board and card games instead. My friends are, for the most part, not board game nerds. They want to play commercially successful games like Trivial Pursuit, Balderdash, Uno, etc. We've had a real struggle to find a sensible way of playing them. Eventually we just had one household point a webcam at a physical copy of Trivial Pursuit and everyone else play via…
It's basically a "sandbox" gave that can support, in theory, any board game.
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
There's this Codenames clone [1] that's great, you can play in multiples languages and you don't need to share a screen to play. It's for 4-8 players and it's easy to play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codenames_(board_game) [1] https://www.horsepaste.com/
Awesome, thanks for the link! I'm working on an addendum to the article for game-specific sites. This is perfect.
Also, plug for my own site https://oneword.games. It's an implementation of Just One, the 2019 Spiel des Jahres winner. I built it a month ago just to play with my friends; now I'm getting hundreds of daily players and I can't figure out where they're even coming from =P
A few weeks ago I tried Tabletop Simulator with two other friends to play Gloomhaven[+]. I admire the developers that took on such a (positively) complex and rich game as Gloomhaven. But it was a far cry from in-person playing (I realize). It's very much understandable—you just can't replicate that high-definition feeling you get from in-person game, especially from such a rich game. I was 'dejected' (again, that's n…
I feel your pain. As fun as online sessions are nothing beats physically picking up a figurine or meeple. I also found Gloomhaven particularly hard to use on TTS. Wingspan, on the other hand, was a joy to play.
A few weeks ago I tried Tabletop Simulator with two other friends to play Gloomhaven[+]. I admire the developers that took on such a (positively) complex and rich game as Gloomhaven. But it was a far cry from in-person playing (I realize). It's very much understandable—you just can't replicate that high-definition feeling you get from in-person game, especially from such a rich game. I was 'dejected' (again, that's n…
There are definitely some games that just don't translate as well to Tabletop Sim, but as far as shared tabletop experiences, TTS blows every other one I've tried out of the water on the widest variety of games. I use it for D&D, Wizards' Academy, and I own about half of the official DLC games.
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Thank you! We'll definitely look into changing the names to avoid legal issues.
Yeah man, really impressed with your simple yet effective implementation. Played a quick game of Boggle with a work mate of mine to test it out. Worked quick and seamlessly! Can't wait to see what other games you get on there.
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 love social & competitive word games like Boggle and Codenames. Are you taking suggestions for which games you'll implement next?
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…
It's easy to adapt roll-and-write games (the genre that Yahtzee belongs to). One player rolls the dice and puts them in front of their webcam, the rest mark their answers on private boards. You can each buy the game, or print off copies of the board, or draw them by hand, or take a picture and write on it in a photo editor.
We've been playing a lot of Railroad Ink, which has a particularly easy board to draw by hand.
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I'm kinda surprised by all the hate on Monopoly. It's a great game for learning. It teaches you to take risks early and slowly lower your risk tolerance over time to let your existing assets appreciate. 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. It teaches you that capitalism isn't fair, because good strategy and hard work don't p…
"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…
Once you get 6 properties with 4 houses each, you control 75% of all houses.
This is especially true if you play strictly by the rules where you cannot buy a hotel without first having four houses - it's then impossible for anyone to surpass your edge by skipping straight to hotel.
It doesn't matter which group of three, so long as it's cheap enough to build out all the houses quickly.
But yes, orange is best because of jail