It has classics from Backgammon (and its multiplayer equivalent, Ludo) to Terraforming Mars and up to modern titles released this year. Many are totally free to play with just an account. Some are paywalled behind premium access, but you only need one person at the table with a premium subscription to start the game, and then everyone else can participate for free.
You can play in real time with people or turn-based across days at a dozen different virtual tables simultaneously (it notifies you, either by email or other settings, whenever it’s your turn).
It handholds you through legal moves, so you can use the platform to learn new games. Some of my in-person board game purchases came from games I learned here online!
Given the small size of the communities, you might also consider using !boardgames@sopuli.xyz for your discussions instead of starting a new niche comm :)
Yes, I know about that as well! I guess I could mention it there, too, and double up any content.
and double up any content.
This tends to splinters discussions as comments from a post on one community don’t show up on the same post on the other community
!fedigrow@lemm.ee usually recommends to merge similar communities, you can have a look at a few recent posts
Hmm… point taken.
Feel free to discuss with @AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works , they mod !boardgames@sopuli.xyz and are generally quite nice 😄
Sorry, is it not linked? I’m new to this.
You linked to https://lemmy.zip/c/BoardGameArena, which is usually fine, but sometimes causes issues for users who are not on lemmy.zip.
it’s generally good practice to include the “instance agnostic” link too.
You linked to https://lemmy.zip/c/BoardGameArena, which is usually fine, but sometimes causes issues for users who are not on lemmy.zip.
It takes (most) people away from their home instance, to another one where they are no longer logged in and their preferences are not applied. Better to use a ! link.
I did not know, thanks!
Didn’t lemmy.zip de-federate with .world? So you’re announcing to a community where most users can’t see the content in your community.
I have a lemmy.zip account, they still federate LW
Wait, you’re on a .world account, in a .world comm. How are you replying to this post?
I have a lemmy.zip account, they still federate LW
Shoot. Ironic! I didn’t know how to check… I wonder why they unlinked…
I believe .zip complained about the lack of moderation in .world. .world is quite large so the mods can’t wrangle everyone. It’s easy for a small instance to point to a big one and say they aren’t doing their jobs, in reality it’s a less work to police a fraction of the users.
We haven’t defederated with .world.
I must have confused it with another instance.
Ooh, anyone know if it’s got some way to play BattleTech? I don’t see an official game for it, I wonder if there’s some legally distinct game I’m not finding in search.
Either way, I dig it. Tabletop Sim in my phone browser is dope
Asmodee owns BGA, so they would need a copyright agreement with BT’s owner, and probably a lotta other stuff. It’s not freestyle like TTS; it’s mostly 2D (only Santorini AFAIK is 3D on BGA) and each game is specifically and meticulously replicated.
It’s not really a tabletop sim, it’s games turned into web apps. You’re looking for tabletop simulator on Steam.
