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Skittish: A playful space for online events

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Re: Skittish: A playful space for online events

#11

Looks similar in terms of concept to https://www.gather.town/ I will try it soon. I think the game changer for any conference tool will be special audio. Very awesome that https://skittish.com/ as well as https://www.gather.town/ have that. Great work!

If we're posting playful town-style meeting spaces with cute animals, can't forget about this one: https://pony.town/ (2016)

Re: Skittish: A playful space for online events

#12
post #3

This actually looks like fun. At some point I wonder where we blend the edges of 'game' and 'collaboration tool'. On one side you got audio chat like any business application, on the other side you got some kind of animal crossing sandbox. If you added file sharing and whiteboard thingie, where does it stop?

I wish Rockstar would add drawing-on-a-board support with export to PDF/JPG/PNG to GTA Online, at least in [friends-only][1] sessions.

[1]: https://hypertexthero.com/gta-online-meeting/

Re: Skittish: A playful space for online events

#14

Looks similar in terms of concept to https://www.gather.town/ I will try it soon. I think the game changer for any conference tool will be special audio. Very awesome that https://skittish.com/ as well as https://www.gather.town/ have that. Great work!

If we're posting playful town-style meeting spaces with cute animals, can't forget about this one: https://pony.town/ (2016)

Pony Town is a classic! It's crazy how popular it is for how sparse the featureset is, I guess it's a testament to the value proposition of sites like this.

Re: Skittish: A playful space for online events

#15

Looks similar in terms of concept to https://www.gather.town/ I will try it soon. I think the game changer for any conference tool will be special audio. Very awesome that https://skittish.com/ as well as https://www.gather.town/ have that. Great work!

If we're posting playful town-style meeting spaces with cute animals, can't forget about this one: https://pony.town/ (2016)

BABSCon used it this year, and tbh I think it went extremely well: https://twitter.com/ponytownteam/status/1379378405557297157

Re: Skittish: A playful space for online events

#17

Looks similar in terms of concept to https://www.gather.town/ I will try it soon. I think the game changer for any conference tool will be special audio. Very awesome that https://skittish.com/ as well as https://www.gather.town/ have that. Great work!

Also Mibo: https://getmibo.com/

Re: Skittish: A playful space for online events

#18

Fun! It could use some work on a path finder algorithm though. Having to manually lead around the (many) fences and tables and other obstacles is more annoying than just clicking at my goal and having it figure out the way there. It also makes my elderly MBP 2015 heat up and make tons of fan noise. I'm not sure if it would be a great fit for family stuff with even older and less powerful machines.

Intel GPU?

Re: Skittish: A playful space for online events

#19
post #3

This actually looks like fun. At some point I wonder where we blend the edges of 'game' and 'collaboration tool'. On one side you got audio chat like any business application, on the other side you got some kind of animal crossing sandbox. If you added file sharing and whiteboard thingie, where does it stop?

I wish Rockstar would add drawing-on-a-board support with export to PDF/JPG/PNG to GTA Online, at least in [friends-only][1] sessions. [1]: https://hypertexthero.com/gta-online-meeting/

It even fits within the game world in terms of using a whiteboard to plan a heist.

Re: Skittish: A playful space for online events

#20
As someone who has developed similarly playful online spaces with spatial audio I am pleasantly surprised with Skittish. They really "get it" when it comes to essence of digital places in a way that virtually no other apps in the space seem to understand

Glad they exist, and I hope they may inspire people to build more creative, fun, and playful spaces for themselves and their friends :)

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