My Friends Keep Leaving and it is Ruining Board Games Day

These days, moving away doesn’t put too much of a dampener on staying in touch with your friends. Unfortunately, it has had a severe effect on my regular board games day. So, I thought, why not solve this problem with telepresence board gaming? Can’t be too hard! This session will cover what's been done, and what problems are still out there I have no idea about how to solve?

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1. My Friends Keep Leaving and it is Ruining Board Games Day Tim Nugent
4. My Friends Keep Leaving and it is Ruining Board Games Day Tim Nugent
5. That’s me Good whisky
6. I’m from Hobart
11. CC BY NC-SA 3.0 @tonygray
12. I speak Australian
13. I speak Australian Sorry about that
14. CC BY-SA 3.0 @chrisjrn
17. Jon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison & Tim Nugent Swift Development with Cocoa DEVELOPING FOR THE MAC AND IOS APP STORES
18. … all of that is a bit dull
21. Opinions
22. I know so very little…
23. ALL THE GAMES
27. Magic: The Gathering
35. Let’s get cracking
37. … then the diaspora began
39. This will not do!
40. … there is totally gonna be an app for that, right?
47. it uses Java
48. Legal grey area
59. play by email
60. play by email Twilight Imperium
61. play by email Twilight Imperium 1. Get an extra player willing to give up their life to be the Game Master
62. play by email Twilight Imperium 1. Get an extra player willing to give up their life to be the Game Master 2. Modify the rules so certain time sensitive events are no longer available
63. play by email Twilight Imperium 1. Get an extra player willing to give up their life to be the Game Master 2. Modify the rules so certain time sensitive events are no longer available 3. Download a dedicated website set up to record the game state
64. play by email Twilight Imperium 1. Get an extra player willing to give up their life to be the Game Master 2. Modify the rules so certain time sensitive events are no longer available 3. Download a dedicated website set up to record the game state 4. Get the GM to make a spreadsheet keeping track of all played cards
65. play by email Twilight Imperium 1. Get an extra player willing to give up their life to be the Game Master 2. Modify the rules so certain time sensitive events are no longer available 3. Download a dedicated website set up to record the game state 4. Get the GM to make a spreadsheet keeping track of all played cards 5. Take your turn and input your turn into the website
66. play by email Twilight Imperium 1. Get an extra player willing to give up their life to be the Game Master 2. Modify the rules so certain time sensitive events are no longer available 3. Download a dedicated website set up to record the game state 4. Get the GM to make a spreadsheet keeping track of all played cards 5. Take your turn and input your turn into the website 6. Email the website to the GM
67. play by email Twilight Imperium 1. Get an extra player willing to give up their life to be the Game Master 2. Modify the rules so certain time sensitive events are no longer available 3. Download a dedicated website set up to record the game state 4. Get the GM to make a spreadsheet keeping track of all played cards 5. Take your turn and input your turn into the website 6. Email the website to the GM 7. GM verifies the turn and then passes the website onto the next player
68. play by email Twilight Imperium 1. Get an extra player willing to give up their life to be the Game Master 2. Modify the rules so certain time sensitive events are no longer available 3. Download a dedicated website set up to record the game state 4. Get the GM to make a spreadsheet keeping track of all played cards 5. Take your turn and input your turn into the website 6. Email the website to the GM 7. GM verifies the turn and then passes the website onto the next player 8. Go to Step 5 for the next player
69. Something is missing
70. We are social beings
73. Tactile nature of games
78. Moments
79. bluff
80. giggle
81. muhahahaha
82. counter
83. dice gods
84. RNG gods
85. argument
86. Moments are what we need!
87. We want to play our existing games
88. We want to play our existing games but with friends who have moved away
89. We want to play our existing games but with friends who have moved away without losing any of the great moments we used to have
90. 1. Tech supported board games 2. Video chat
91. Tech supported board games
95. Video chat
98. You need more than a face
99. Some experimentation
102. Zombicide
109. What’s next?
110. Multiple cameras is hard…
111. Camera and game integration
112. Cardboard generates no light
114. Many components of games have no physicality
115. these should be electronic
116. Mindbogglingly easy to cheat
117. IT NEEDS TO BE FLEXIBLE!
118. keep it simple
119. There is no community
120. There is no community yet…
121. Thanks @The_McJones