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Board Gaming in Figma
- TheNexxuz 5y agoThere has to be a "Figma" joke there....
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoI don't have any "Figma" jokes, but I do have a "Ligma" in the chamber :) Also comes in "Sackoma" and a "Suggandeze" variants.
- mcdonje 5y agoThere's not. It's just a figma of your imagination.
- elliotlarson 5y agoOkay, well figma one out and get back to us
- mopierotti 5y agoI've noticed that this approach has its pros, but there's one con I need you to take care of. Con: Figma Con figma dev environment for me please.
- oingodoingo 5y agonope
- wly_cdgr 5y agoCool but why didn't you just use the Tabletop Simulator version https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=368959756 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=36895...
- eddieroger 5y ago"Because they can?" What other reason would someone need? Every post on here could be done a different way.
- happytoexplain 5y agoWell, this writeup is both novel and educational, so I'm glad they chose to do it this way regardless. However, to offer one possible answer to your question, there is a world of difference in UX (both good and bad) between Tabletop Simulator and more common, straightforward digital board games.
- pimlottc 5y agoTabletop Simulator requires a fairly decent 3D card. It’s pretty slow on an early 2020 MacBook Air, for example.
- RandallBrown 5y agoFigma is pretty slow on my 2019 MacBook Pro.
- fabianmg 5y agoAlso, tabletop is 20€ and as far as I know you can implement this with the free account on Figma.
- SamBam 5y agoHonestly, I've never really understood the appeal of Tabletop Simulator for 2-D games. Seems like a lot of overhead (computationally and conceptually) for something that would be more clearly and simply recreated in a 2-D world. I've stuck to boardgamearena for my online playing.
- svachalek 5y agoIt can be nice I guess when you've internalized the camera to the point you don't have to think about it. But it's so overkill. All I really want is a fast lightweight client that runs on anything.
- bpodgursky 5y agoIs there a 2D tabletop simulator? Friends and I have used it a ton as a fallback for games which don't have a digital copy; you can just scan your physical copy and have it running in TTS in an afternoon. I'm not sure there's a good alternative? (also for true tabletop games like 40k or sigmar the 3d geometry is actually important and fun)
- AdamTReineke 5y agoI haven't used it myself but I know Vassal [0] was used for Pipeline playstesting and it seems to have an extensive set of games set up already. I like BoardGameArena since the games are licensed and you know you're supporting the creators in some way versus platforms that are typically unlicensed like TTS. [0] https://vassalengine.org/about.html https://vassalengine.org/about.html
- vikingerik 5y agoThe big advantage of TTS is that you can manipulate any components however you want, as in physical play. You can apply house rules, add custom components (cards/factions/etc), allow take-backs or corrections, play out experimental what-if scenarios, and so on. If you don't care about that amount of freeform object manipulation and just want to bang through a game by its standard implementation, then yeah boardgamearena will do fine.
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- hwers 5y agoI guess I'm getting old since I don't find this that exciting.
- 123pie123 5y agoI'll need to look in to "The Duke" it looks interesting - not sure on the figma implementation regarding board games simliarish to chess - I can highly recommend Martian Chess, very easy to pick up, but if you play chess it messes with your head (in a good way) rules: https://www.looneylabs.com/rules/martian-chess https://www.looneylabs.com/rules/martian-chess I couldn't find any online version (except SWF versions)
- CobrastanJorji 5y agoI was curious about boardgamearena.com the other day. They had hundreds of board games implemented on their platform, and I figured they probably had some sort of DSL for board games rules and was wondering about what that might look like. I went looking around and found out that, surprise, the site was open source! So I went looking. It's just...PHP. Each game is written from scratch in PHP with SQL tables for game state (custom schemas for each game), with clients written mostly from scratch in JavaScript and Dojo. For a bit, I thought "this is crazy," then I realized that they have successfully implemented hundreds of board games and I have not, so perhaps I should trust they know what they're doing.
- hooksfordays 5y agoMany of the games are implemented by volunteers!
- NotAnOtter 5y agoWith an open source project like that it's probably best to supply an empty canvas or maybe a standardized tool kit and then let the community take over. An over engineer game engine will probably detour more casual contributors. And another perspective is that 90% of open source contributors don't just want their name on a project, they want to experience a piece of tech they are new to.
- antifa 5y agoWhat I really want is to play these games on my phone, and get a notification when it's my turn. Kind of like words with friends, but with board games and games like advanced wars/fire emblem/civilization. Almost everything on Android is complete anti-user garbage or requires everyone playing to commit the same hour to waiting around on each other's turns.