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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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Post by caffeinewriter »

kashyapc wrote: post #166
caffeinewriter wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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 :)

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Post by RustyRussell »

We played Pandemic with great success: the other couple had the game too, put all their cards face up so they could find them fast. We drew for everyone, they mirrored.

That avoids complexities of camera resolution, and lets you examine other players at a glance: important for a co-op game.

(Yeah, I deliberately bought Pandemic just as we entered isolation since I've always wanted it and obvious reasons).

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by yreg »

panphora wrote: post #70

A few friends and I invented a board game several years ago and we all thought this pandemic time would be a great opportunity to get back into it. I set up a real time board game maker online, called DoomGrid[0]. It's very basic and just uses Firebase to sync a bunch of game objects across everyone's game board. We also published the rules for our invented game recently[1] (warning, only 70% complete). We've now spe…

I took this game design course[0] on Coursera for fun and found it pleasing. The students are asked to invent constrained games as assignments and they get feedback on them from their peers.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-design/home/welcome

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by econti »

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

I just gave it a shot to play codenames and it worked great for us. Are there restrictions on the max number of participants per game at this time? I'm thinking this could be fun for a work happy hour.

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Post by hunterloftis »

I'm building a Dungeons&Dragons/Pathfinder/etc remote tabletop system for my D&D party:

https://twitter.com/HunterLoftis/status/1248742209110884353

"Share a link and start playing" has been the most important quality for my group of variously-technically-experienced friends.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by blakeburch »

joemasilotti wrote: post #125
blakeburch wrote: post #84

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!

Yeah, that's a pretty meaty topic on its own. If you choose a mod with bad scripting, you're in for a rough ride. I always try to test a game out by myself to make sure everything functions as expected.

On the bright side, if anything messes up, you can usually press undo and just manually move the pieces around. :)

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Post by ISL »

We've been mounting a Logitech webcam to an inexpensive tripod with an inverted-column. We connect that webcam to a computer and log it in to a videoconference.

We use another computer to bring our family into a videoconference with friends. Works great with most games.

Took us about half an hour to get the lighting right, and now we can spin it up in about five minutes to play any game in the house.

About half the time, we don't even play the game. Conversation matters more than everything else these days.

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Post by bovermyer »

hunterloftis wrote: post #175

I'm building a Dungeons&Dragons/Pathfinder/etc remote tabletop system for my D&D party: https://twitter.com/HunterLoftis/status/1248742209110884353 "Share a link and start playing" has been the most important quality for my group of variously-technically-experienced friends.

This has my attention, especially if it has D&D Beyond integration.

Re: How to play board games online with your friends

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Post by bovermyer »

kerkeslager wrote: post #39
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…

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…

Monopoly taught me to never play Monopoly, so I guess I got something valuable out of it.

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Post by ipsum2 »

polishdude20 wrote: post #100
panphora wrote: post #70

A few friends and I invented a board game several years ago and we all thought this pandemic time would be a great opportunity to get back into it. I set up a real time board game maker online, called DoomGrid[0]. It's very basic and just uses Firebase to sync a bunch of game objects across everyone's game board. We also published the rules for our invented game recently[1] (warning, only 70% complete). We've now spe…

A friend and I made a game a few weeks ago and it's also just simply synchronizes the board using a server to store the game state. It's a Codenames clone you can find here http://those.codes

That's very polished, I like the "draw yourself" animation.
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