Not a fan. Please do NOT simulate this type of gaming when the platform experience is vastly different: human hands versus a touchpad (mouse). Why do I need a 3d view? We played a TTS game where we needed to pay coins, make change, and take resources each turn. We tried to stack the coins and they would not stack. We tried to take multiple resources and it would not let us, so we took them one-by-one. A painful exper…
Tabletop Simulator
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#32If you want to buy it wait a couple of days for the steam sale coming up
Is this one of those games that's constantly on sale? I picked it up for five bucks on Steam just a few weeks ago.
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#33I'm curious how they've manage to bypass copyright issues so far and how well they'll do long term. So much of the game relies on distributing copyrighted content in the workshop. I guess they do have paid official DLCs but does anyone use those?
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#34I found this game to only be fun to play in VR (I have the Oculus Quest 2). On PC, it's hard to use KBAM as hands as adamredwoods said.
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#35It's nice to read that they've got anti-griefing tools built into the software. The web has been around too long for developers to not take social interactions into account. Perfect solutions don't exist but if you do nothing you're going to get nailed very quickly, at a time you'd rather be developing the game than playing catchup with setting up the community.
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#36Shameless plug: I created a free 2d web based tabletop app at https://screentop.gg that lets you put together a multiplayer board game without any coding.
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#37It's nice to read that they've got anti-griefing tools built into the software. The web has been around too long for developers to not take social interactions into account. Perfect solutions don't exist but if you do nothing you're going to get nailed very quickly, at a time you'd rather be developing the game than playing catchup with setting up the community.
I've only ever used Tabletop Sim with the same group of friends that I play physical board games with. I'm not sure it's actually common to use this with randos that might try to grief?
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#38there are great scripted games free available at workshop. Played with my group in the last months: Photosynthesis, Zombicide, Catan, Sheriff, Azul and Splendor.
There's def a learning curve and some people suffer a bit, but overall now that everybody can use TAB to indicate something on the board, take single card vs all cards on deck, hand mechanics, blindfold, etc, it's all very smooth. My brother is not having the best time because he's on a mac with a single button mouse (?) but apart from that it's alright for everybody.
We bought packs of 4 with good prices and everybody is very satisfied. Age 30's.
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#39If you want to buy it wait a couple of days for the steam sale coming up
Is this one of those games that's constantly on sale? I picked it up for five bucks on Steam just a few weeks ago.
It seems to go on sale pretty often, but never as low as $5 in the US: https://steamdb.info/app/286160/
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#40For people in the board game industry, Tabletop Simulator has become invaluable during the pandemic. A ton of designers have figured out how to use TTS enough to get their prototypes working in here and then have online virtual playtest nights using it. Also publishers can also use it to playtest games, or to see a virtual pitch. TTS is actually very powerful once you dig into it. I was annoyed by it at first, but on…
Is there any way to improve TTS’s performance? My laptop’s fan goes off when running it. I wish they could provide an option do so a simpler rendering. Otherwise it requires some good hardware to run it nicely.