Online Board Gaming, a web app idea
A site designed to easily allow two people to play one of a number of classic board games as simply as possible on the web.
How to get started:
- Go to the site, choose the game you wish to play, average length between turns and the emails of the two players.
- Confirmation emails are now sent, one to each player.
- When both are confirmed, the site sends back links to that players ‘seat’.
- A ‘seat’ is a long generated php name that instantly puts the user into that players control of the game, no login required.
- If you go to your seat, and it is your turn, you can take your turn, then it will say, ‘waiting for other player’
- If you go to your seat and it is not your turn, there is just a ‘waiting for other player’ message.
- If the other player hasn’t taken their turn, you can ‘nudge’ the other player once per the avg length between turns that was set out at the beginning.
- At the end of the game, users can go in for up to two weeks and export all the moves into a CSV file, that can be put into a ‘move player’ at the main site for review.
Why this is a good idea:
- There are no accounts to setup, no information stored.
- The ease in which you can setup a game should bring in a lot of fringe players, even older people.
Category: design One comment »
November 19th, 2008 at 19:21
Fair idea but I believe that some people actually like sitting at a table across from each other and face to face playing on a real board. I played a game of chess years ago with someone online and it was a bore- and extra time permits the opponent to research the next move to much. Face to face play requires that you really have your game hat on- no where to run and no where to hide.