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Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by gok »

mcv wrote: post #185
_pastel wrote: post #147

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Is your friend doing okay? The site seems pretty slammed. Looks like they finally got the ratings updater back online after it went down a few weeks ago.

He's doing fine, if a bit lonely, because he can't yet afford to hire anyone to work on it together. Though he has an active online community helping him out. The site had some stability issues when user numbers spiked a couple of weeks ago, but he says he can scale more easily now and isn't afraid if everybody on HN comes to check it out.

Does he have a Patreon or something? I would love to support it.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by intenscia »

If you are after a Board Game Sandbox, I recommend you take a look at Tabletop Playground as they are running a free beta on Steam right now ahead of the games launch next month: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282050/Tabletop_Playgrou...

Full Disclosure: I am helping to publish the game, so feel free to AMA

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by groggo »

amiga_500 wrote: post #190
astura wrote: post #162

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Tabletop Simulator (mentioned in TFA) is ideal for that, it can play most if not all of those. We've played Monopoly, Sorry, The Game of Life, Uno, Clue, and Catan as well as your standard card games (hearts, rummy, etc.). We've got a couple "classics" queued up for this weekend too. The first game was getting used to the controls but it was very smooth sailing after that. It's basically a "sandbox" gave that can sup…

Can you give me a brief description of how to play Catan on this? I have a harder problem than just playing against friends. My wife and I, and another couple, all want to play Catan together. I don't want to sit in a different room to my wife. I was considering just using a webcam here and at my friends, having two boards setup and both doing the same moves, so we can all "see" what is going on, and one side looking…

I made an online version of Catan, want to try? I don't want to publicize it since it's running on a free Heroku dyno (and copyright infringement, probably), but I think it'd be fun to share with a few internet strangers.

It's more of a tabletop style where you do everything yourself (collect resources, place settlements) and the pieces are synced between players.

Email me! cebraverde, at gmail.com

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by groggo »

kzrdude wrote: post #34

Colonist.io has been playable and nice (for Settlers of Catan). They too struggle under load.

Want to try a looser, table-top style version? Email me cebraverde, at gmail.com

I was frustrated by the official online Catan and Colonist.io, so I made my own version.

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Post by imetatroll »

ollerac wrote: post #132
imetatroll wrote: post #123

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!

I just tried it out and it was really hard to get started. I couldn't figure out how to edit a game board and there was really little guidance around what to do, like a step 1, step 2, step 3. I had no idea what an "Encounter" sized board was, for example. And the icon buttons were hard to use. I had to hover over them to see what they did and it wasn't easy. Maybe use a tooltip library for those (like tippy.js) or j…

Thanks for the feedback!

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Post by re »

JoeDaDude wrote: post #117
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

I'm not familiar with many of the games in that video. But one of the things that makes Monopoly well-suited to remote playing is that there no information that needs to be kept secret, so it's reasonable to play with a physical board where remote people tell the board owner what moves to make on their behalf.

Games like Catan where you maintain a hand of hidden cards require either some software to facilitate play, or else a lot of painstaking effort. It's not impossible though: one of my relatives played Euchre (a trick-taking card game) on a Zoom call with friends, where the dealer would show each person their cards one at a time, while everyone else turned away from their screen so that they couldn't see.

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Post by parasubvert »

amiga_500 wrote: post #190
astura wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tabletop Simulator (mentioned in TFA) is ideal for that, it can play most if not all of those. We've played Monopoly, Sorry, The Game of Life, Uno, Clue, and Catan as well as your standard card games (hearts, rummy, etc.). We've got a couple "classics" queued up for this weekend too. The first game was getting used to the controls but it was very smooth sailing after that. It's basically a "sandbox" gave that can sup…

Can you give me a brief description of how to play Catan on this? I have a harder problem than just playing against friends. My wife and I, and another couple, all want to play Catan together. I don't want to sit in a different room to my wife. I was considering just using a webcam here and at my friends, having two boards setup and both doing the same moves, so we can all "see" what is going on, and one side looking…

The issue is secret hand management , a separate device per player is needed to handle secrets.

I’ve successfully setup a Discord session between two households where we all had laptops or desktops around a kitchen table with Tabletop Simulator on each, and a central TV for the video/audio and the overall game board shared “spectator mode”.

We played Ticket to Ride and a couple others (Sushi Go Party, and Spirit Island , which is like cooperative anti-Catan). It worked out well but definitely took some practice to get the right mix of software, and it helped that TTS was on sale.

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Post by jvm_ »

iso1631 wrote: post #7

After watching an attempt to make Scrabble work [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXo_i3ktwM ], I was thinking what games could work via a webcam if all players have the game. Thinking of games I've played recently, Dominion would work. Ticket to Ride wouldn't. On the Underground would, 1960 Making of a President wouldn't. Normal Settlers wouldn't, but the junior version of Settlers would The key thing is not drawin…

The ticket to ride app is only $8-9 depending on your platform. It's pretty easy to find other players and make an online game. We played a few games as a family with a meet.jit.si running in the background, it worked pretty good. If you assume the price of the game is the cost of the gas it would take to drive to someone's house, it evens out in the end.

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Post by ianjsikes »

JohnKacz wrote: post #72
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

Looks good. I'd love to know what stack you're building with and what you're learning. After seeing the readastorytome.com Show HN [0] was using Phoenix LiveView I was considering building a similar app to play spades or 42 as an excuse to learn some things I've been wanting to learn for awhile. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836940

I am working on a little clone of One Night Ultimate Werewolf using Phoenix LiveView. It has been working out great for me so far.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by jvm_ »

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…

Jit.si is as easy as https://meet.jit.si/bluetidepro Just give browser permissions and you're in.
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