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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 3

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 experience. We use BoardGameArena, Yucata, and Boiteajeux. All which have interface problems, but vastly superior for speed. One of my pet projects is to make an open source, self-hosting, modular tabletop gaming platform, so this way ANYONE can write a 'module' and share it, and leave the hosting up to the individuals.

hadlock 6y ago
Have you used TTS in VR yet? I wonder if that alleviates some of your concerns.
pessimizer 6y ago
> One of my pet projects is to make an open source, self-hosting, modular tabletop gaming platform, so this way ANYONE can write a 'module' and share it, and leave the hosting up to the individuals. Me, too. I think the fact that game components are physical objects that are rested upon each other limits what can be expressed in a game enough that you could possibly boil them down to a markup language. Then have a single player "host" the game by running a server, and everyone else can connect to that player securely, with access granted only to what the rules would allow them to "view." I have a fantasy about peer-to-peer boardgaming, with everybody's hand and whatever is hidden behind their player screen on their phone, tablet or laptop. Something that would work as well with everybody in the room together (have a widescreen logged in as an observer of the board) as it does with players on opposite sides of the world.
aidenn0 6y ago
http://www.vassalengine.org/ http://www.vassalengine.org/

hadlock 6y ago

Have you used TTS in VR yet? I wonder if that alleviates some of your concerns.

pessimizer 6y ago

> One of my pet projects is to make an open source, self-hosting, modular tabletop gaming platform, so this way ANYONE can write a 'module' and share it, and leave the hosting up to the individuals. Me, too. I think the fact that game components are physical objects that are rested upon each other limits what can be expressed in a game enough that you could possibly boil them down to a markup language. Then have a single player "host" the game by running a server, and everyone else can connect to that player securely, with access granted only to what the rules would allow them to "view." I have a fantasy about peer-to-peer boardgaming, with everybody's hand and whatever is hidden behind their player screen on their phone, tablet or laptop. Something that would work as well with everybody in the room together (have a widescreen logged in as an observer of the board) as it does with players on opposite sides of the world.

aidenn0 6y ago

http://www.vassalengine.org/ http://www.vassalengine.org/