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French Canadian
Feb 23, 2004

Fluffy cat sensory experience
Yo goons. I want in on this thread.

Wife and I are self-imposing lockdown and live in Wisconsin. But we have friends who are truly locked down in California.

We want to play board games via THE INTERNET, a la Ticket to Ride (which I just discovered can be played online).

I went so far as to set up a series of webcams to do a self-broadcast game but then I realized the internet is pretty powerful and maybe just doing fully online versions but adding in a Zoom or GChat for a more personal experience or whatever is a better way.

So...Ticket to Ride via https://www.daysofwonder.com/online/en/play

What else is out there? I'm down with Steam, but I don't want super intense D20 games and poo poo. Just easier stuff that is like 1-2 hours of play time. I'm thinking Forbidden Island would be fun if it was online!

Also it would be great if only one person had to buy the game you know? Is that possible? I don't want to make everyone shell out $20 at this very moment (maybe later when like the whole country is under siege).

edit: I see Tabletopia on Steam looks kinda neat and each board game is only about $6 which is reasonable on a per-person basis. Anyone tried that?

edit: Explored Tabletopia a bit more and it's pretty cool. For $3.50 you can get like 7 days of all the premium content and your friends don't have to pay to join premium/expanded games. Interface is pretty easy and they have a bazillion modern board games.

French Canadian fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Mar 21, 2020

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French Canadian
Feb 23, 2004

Fluffy cat sensory experience
Well I guess you could share a computer with either program. But it's like sharing a chair around a table...

People keep bringing up tabletop simulator and I think that's because we're all more familiar with video gaming in general.

Tabletopia feels like it's much more accessible to average computer users.

Tabletopia also only needs one person to pay $ and then they can invite people to the games they start (in the instance of premium content or most games with 3+ players).

I also think the system reqs are lower for Tabletopia but I might be wrong.

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