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Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by jvm_ »

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.

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

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Post by zaneyard »

blakeburch wrote: post #181
zaneyard wrote: post #137

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I've been looking at moving to Austin and love board games. Unfortunately with everything canceled I can't currently use Meetup to check out the scene. Would you mind talking a little bit about what the board game scene is normally like in the area?

Sure thing! I'm caveating this with the fact that I've only been in the area for 2 years now. After I found some good groups, I haven't actively looked as often. Meetups - Austin is pretty heavily split between North/South of Town Lake (Lady Bird Lake). A lot of people don't "cross the line". - North Austin has a lot more gaming groups than the South Austin region, at an estimated ratio of 3:1. - A majority of groups…

Awesome thank you! I'm up near the twin cities; the saint paul board game meetup goes to a lot of breweries and I prefer that vibe too. I like the game aspect but I think the social part is important too. I'm hoping to move this year, but a lot of that depends on how long the pandemic lasts unfortunately. I'm happy to hear there's some good groups. I don't mind traveling a little bit to meet up, but I'll check out the north side a bit more if it's nerdier.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

jtolmar wrote: post #169
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…

> how to modify boardgames to play with friends via webcam 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 Railroa…

We tried Boggle, it was painful because we had a group at each webcam and one of the people had a really poor connection. The checking of words for uniqueness at the end of the round took forever. Still fun, but I wouldn't play again unless it was one webcam per person. YMMV.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

iso1631 wrote: post #4
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…

"We played Monopoly, and had good success" Unlikely. What a tedious game

Ha, kids like to pretend to be rich, it has a forced progression and not too much randomness, auctions are fun (when you don't have to worry about actual money).

Is there a specific element you don't like? For me money just isn't that fun (the original point of the game, I gather) so ... but it's still not a terrible game.

Principally it was the request of one of the kids, was easy to play via webcam, and all participants had a set (different sets, but we called properties by colour+number pair, eg Orange One; and normalised the currency before we started).

The kids want to play Risk next, but I've not worked out how to make that work smoothly. Probably very similar again: , and each person having their own dice (to improve the tactile aspect).

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Post by amiga_500 »

groggo wrote: post #193
amiga_500 wrote: post #190

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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

Sadly I only have one laptop.

What was wrong with colonist.io ?

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Post by Pietbull »

I'm currently working on a real-time games platform for more social-type games over video calls.

https://ziago.co

It has a few popular drinking games also. Working on adding more intellectual games soon.

Would be happy for some feedback/suggestions.

It's running on Firebase and Vue.

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Post by seandavidfisher »

seandavidfisher wrote: post #89

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

I've since open-sourced this, contributions welcome.

https://github.com/seanfisher/codenames

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Post by kashyapc »

caffeinewriter wrote: post #171
kashyapc wrote: post #166

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Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't even scratched the surface with TTS.

I'll try and put together a collection of great workshop mods when I'm home tomorrow and shoot it your way :)

Aw, thank you. I must admit, I'm such a novice with Steam and online games in general that I didn't even know what are "Workshop Mods" until I looked up now. :-)

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Post by mcv »

gok wrote: post #191
mcv wrote: post #185

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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.

I don't think he has a Patreon, but you can always get a paid Dominion account.
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