Re:Play social games with friends over Zoom
by pbhjpbhj on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:29PM
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Some of my younger family wanted to play Monopoly: as only a couple were remote (only one in the end) we decided to host it locally on a board, and have people join by webcam (https://meet.jit.si/).
Worked quite well.
I asked a related question about playing boardgames via webcam here https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/50797/what-ho... and have a self-answer about our experience.
They're planning on Risk next, but I fancy Catan with multiple boards (not sure how to work it; we only have the base game).
We'd considered Table-Top Simulator, but webcam gave us more human interaction which seemed more important for the kids (they chose the real board over the virtual one). They already have lots of video gaming time which might have influenced the decision.
(FWIW there's an unofficial mod for Monopoly on T-TSim.)
Re:Play social games with friends over Zoom
by exhilaration on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:40PM
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My buddies and I play Risk on http://landgrab.net and it's very nice, tons of different boards to choose from. We do 24 hour turns so it's different than playing live, it's more like correspondence chess.
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How does that compare to playing Catan via Catan Universe? I enjoy the multi-platform (Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Browser, Steam) aspect of it, but it does have some rough edges.
Re:Play social games with friends over Zoom
by exhilaration on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:12PM
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One of my friends tried Catan Universe yesterday and says he prefers Tabletop Simulator. He also said that Catan Universe limits the number of players in the game; we had 5 players over the weekend and may have another friend join soon.
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...