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Online Board game (boardgamearena.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rulray@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/boardgames@sopuli.xyz

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I just wanted to share this amazing platform for playing board games online.

It has a huge selection of games, with good translations to many languages.

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[–] donio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Make sure to check out Yucata.de too. They have about 200 games with some overlaps with BGA. The site UI takes some getting used to and matchmaking is not as well featured as BGA's but the in-game UI is actually very nice once you grok it and it has an excellent undo/replay/log system.

Some of my Yucata favorites:

Bonfire
Carpe Diem
Cartographers (also on BGA)
Fields of Arle
Grand Austria Hotel
Lorenzo Il Magnifico
Mottainai
Mountain Goats (also on BGA)
Mystic Vale
Newton
Rajas of the Ganges
Rajas Dice
Red Cathedral
Renature
Taverns of Tiefenthal

And I am currently practicing Skymines.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Interesting, never heard of this website before! Thanks for sharing!

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems fun but ran like crap on my phone just trying to browse games.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

It's definitely a better experience on desktop.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Love the concept; are they open source? Would love to get gaming further away from the big companies. If it's "free" now, how are users paying for it, with data? Ads? We've seen a well documented history of enshittification so before I dump time into a platform that's my 1a question.

[–] donio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

In general, no the site is not open source. There are however some games whose implementation is public under various licenses. A few examples:

https://github.com/AntonioSoler/bga-santorini https://github.com/micahstairs/bga-innovation https://github.com/bga-devs/bga-heat https://github.com/quietmint/bga-hardback https://github.com/bga-devs/bga-memoir https://github.com/Syarwin/bga-kingdombuilder

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting but I don't see any dungeon crawlers.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Mini Rogue: https://en.boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=minirogue

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to use this, but I don't want to play without my wife and you need to pay to play with someone who has the same IP address as you. No way I'm paying them just to try it out. I get why they do it, but it's complete and utter BS from my perspective since I want to play these games to try them out before buying.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe one of you could use a VPN or something

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Alternatively, play off of mobile data, or the hotspot feature drawing off of mobile data.