Online Board Gaming, a web app idea

Posted by Tim Habersack on November 17th, 2008 filed in design

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.

One Response to “Online Board Gaming, a web app idea”

Uncle Mike Says:
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.

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