<story><title>How to play board games online with your friends</title><url>https://masilotti.com/play-board-games-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>I was hoping this was going to be how to modify boardgames to play with friends via webcam. We played Monopoly, and had good success - one board, setup a ghost player for the remote people. Remote people used parts of a set to keep track of their money and properties. Later several hours.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;In my experience, Zoom is the most consistent service and works on almost any device. One person in your group will need a paid subscription if you want to host an event longer than 40 minutes. &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;We used meet.jit.si, it was  free, good sound&amp;#x2F;video quality and long call time was no problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeDaDude</author><text>By now everybody knows there are alternatives to Monopoly, right?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jAWzA09XGxc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jAWzA09XGxc&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How to play board games online with your friends</title><url>https://masilotti.com/play-board-games-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>I was hoping this was going to be how to modify boardgames to play with friends via webcam. We played Monopoly, and had good success - one board, setup a ghost player for the remote people. Remote people used parts of a set to keep track of their money and properties. Later several hours.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;In my experience, Zoom is the most consistent service and works on almost any device. One person in your group will need a paid subscription if you want to host an event longer than 40 minutes. &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;We used meet.jit.si, it was  free, good sound&amp;#x2F;video quality and long call time was no problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kickscondor</author><text>My group has been doing a similar thing - except that video quality has been to unreliable for some of the more detailed boards (Troyes, Power Grid). We needed the ability to pinch and zoom the board.&lt;p&gt;We’ve been using an app called iPhotoBot to take high res shots every few seconds. These get uploaded to Dropbox. Then there is a web server of a synced folder which builds a page of the images. Server-sent events are used to update the page.&lt;p&gt;It’s kind of clunky to set up, but I can share my code if anyone is interested. I’m also curious if there are better ways to stream high quality photos.</text></comment>