Can you give me a brief description of how to play Catan on this?
I have a harder problem than just playing against friends. My wife and I, and another couple, all want to play Catan together. I don't want to sit in a different room to my wife.
I was considering just using a webcam here and at my friends, having two boards setup and both doing the same moves, so we can all "see" what is going on, and one side looking after the deck, the other the dice.
The issue is secret hand management , a separate device per player is needed to handle secrets.
I’ve successfully setup a Discord session between two households where we all had laptops or desktops around a kitchen table with Tabletop Simulator on each, and a central TV for the video/audio and the overall game board shared “spectator mode”.
We played Ticket to Ride and a couple others (Sushi Go Party, and Spirit Island , which is like cooperative anti-Catan). It worked out well but definitely took some practice to get the right mix of software, and it helped that TTS was on sale.
I made an online version of Catan, want to try? I don't want to publicize it since it's running on a free Heroku dyno (and copyright infringement, probably), but I think it'd be fun to share with a few internet strangers.
It's more of a tabletop style where you do everything yourself (collect resources, place settlements) and the pieces are synced between players.
I have a harder problem than just playing against friends. My wife and I, and another couple, all want to play Catan together. I don't want to sit in a different room to my wife.
I was considering just using a webcam here and at my friends, having two boards setup and both doing the same moves, so we can all "see" what is going on, and one side looking after the deck, the other the dice.