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Thanks for trying it out sharing your feedback on mobile experience. We are still very early and this feedback helps. Assuming we make the experience better, a

Thanks for trying it out sharing your feedback on mobile experience. We are still very early and this feedback helps. Assuming we make the experience better, are there any particular use cases that come to your mind you see yourself using this for?

IggleSniggle 5y ago
I love board games. I own Tabletop Simulator, but honestly have never used it; I think a big part of the reasons why are: 1) other people I want to play with don’t own it, maybe don’t even have Steam, and the barrier to entry is just too high. 2) being at a computer feels too much like work. I prefer mobile devices for “play” for this reason. You are already basically solving both of those problems by being “web native” even if there’s a couple kinks to work out. You might consider whether or not you would be able to be interoperable with whatever game-definition format Tabletop Simulator uses. It is a similar concept, and allows you to “bring your own” game assets/definitions and share them with others via Steam Workshop (although I think there’s also a mechanism to do this even if you aren’t using it on Steam). If you were interoperable with that format, you would instantly have a huge library of prebuilt board game assets and behaviors available to you. Even if you were only able to support importing the assets, that would open up a lot of possibilities for this concept.
- 30minAdayHN 5y ago
  That's a great point you make about the niche market. For serious board gamers, there are already good solutions. But non serious or family / happy hour type board gamers, barrier to entry to those platforms is high. There might be a need for those who fall into that bucket. Agree that, if we can use / integrate with existing solutions like tabletop simulator, we could potentially focus on how to make them fun for not-so-serious users. One concern there is about the classic debate - feature vs product. Intuitively it feels like a feature rather than product, but that's where we have to push and figure out.

IggleSniggle 5y ago

I love board games. I own Tabletop Simulator, but honestly have never used it; I think a big part of the reasons why are: 1) other people I want to play with don’t own it, maybe don’t even have Steam, and the barrier to entry is just too high. 2) being at a computer feels too much like work. I prefer mobile devices for “play” for this reason. You are already basically solving both of those problems by being “web native” even if there’s a couple kinks to work out. You might consider whether or not you would be able to be interoperable with whatever game-definition format Tabletop Simulator uses. It is a similar concept, and allows you to “bring your own” game assets/definitions and share them with others via Steam Workshop (although I think there’s also a mechanism to do this even if you aren’t using it on Steam). If you were interoperable with that format, you would instantly have a huge library of prebuilt board game assets and behaviors available to you. Even if you were only able to support importing the assets, that would open up a lot of possibilities for this concept.

30minAdayHN 5y ago
That's a great point you make about the niche market. For serious board gamers, there are already good solutions. But non serious or family / happy hour type board gamers, barrier to entry to those platforms is high. There might be a need for those who fall into that bucket. Agree that, if we can use / integrate with existing solutions like tabletop simulator, we could potentially focus on how to make them fun for not-so-serious users. One concern there is about the classic debate - feature vs product. Intuitively it feels like a feature rather than product, but that's where we have to push and figure out.