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Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by Onesleepygenius on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:00AM (#22790812)
Woah.

Made one similar a few days ago.

tablegame.org

It requires login, and is based on webrtc.

Free for up to 6 people.

Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by pmontra on Monday April 06, 2020 @01:34AM (#22791138)
The home page has no information about which games it supports and how it works. You could screen record a session, post it to YouTube and embed it in the page.
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by GPUboy on Monday April 06, 2020 @01:38AM (#22791150)
Thanks! We'll def do that. Do you have any suggestions on what games should be added?
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by pmontra on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:47AM (#22791648)
I'm not 100% sure about how it works but I guess that you can't include a board game ff you don't have any kind of agreements with either the authors or the publishers. Traditional games should be fine.

Maybe if your video technology is good you can work at an agreement with the sites that already have them. A video chat could be something they could pay for.

Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by GPUboy on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:44AM (#22794159)
Thanks! Yes we were only looking at public domain games at first.

A partnership would be great, since we could cross promote, and I'm sure a lot of people are looking to try new games.

Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by caseyf7 on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:41AM (#22791385)
Hearts, spades, cribbage, speed
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by GPUboy on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:47AM (#22794190)
Great, thanks! We've also heard cribbage before
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by emmelaich on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:00AM (#22791446)
I'd love to try out the poker option but rather not have to pay just to test it out.

Also .. does "billed yearly" mean you have to pay at least 12 months worth?

Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by GPUboy on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:46AM (#22794185)
Hey, everything should be free right now while we're building, since there's bugs.

There's a monthly and yearly, but likely we'll end up charging less for this when it actually launches. How much would be appropriate like $2/m? We want to make the video rooms free up to 6 people, and only charge for developing extra premium games.

Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by shireboy on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:07AM (#22790835)
Will definitely check this out. I did think about trying to roll my own no-timer version and possibly add other “low tech” games like checkers, etc.
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by Onesleepygenius on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:14AM (#22790853)
Say thanks! We've heard feedback about the timer too, so we're implementing more options and other board games too.

Ours works in firefox/mobile for video chat no problem, but still may have some bugs.

Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by mariusz331 on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:28AM (#22790911)
Curious if the 6 people is a limitation of WebRTC? I'm building a video chat app on it now and would love to hear about your experience.
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by GPUboy on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:42AM (#22790956)
6 is a limit for Janus webrtc( https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/) but webrtc itself can handle up to 12 it seems at 720p. It really is dependent on the bandwidth each user can support, unless you add in some backend concatenation like Zoom. (I helped with this)
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by saurik on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:22AM (#22898742)
That isn't just a limit of the demo app to make it easier and is not a limit of Janus.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/meetecho-janus/twW...

Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by phs318u on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:35AM (#22790929)
Is this by invitation only? Sign-up is asking for a referral code.
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by GPUboy on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:38AM (#22790938)
no referral code needed
Re:Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required by phs318u on Monday April 06, 2020 @01:46AM (#22791179)
Thanks.