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« on: January 25, 2016, 09:01:49 AM »

Found this: http://livegameboard.com/

Anyone have any ideas?
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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2016, 12:24:21 PM »

Always wanted to try Eye of Judgement. Uses a TV but looks really cool.
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2016, 01:21:40 PM »

Always wanted to try Eye of Judgement. Uses a TV but looks really cool.

That does!

I feel like there's so much potential here....
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2016, 04:19:54 PM »

I know almost nothing about this. But my feeling towards it is that if augumented reality is used "just" to show 3d models and scenery upon the table, it is not really thinking about the medium. It's just bad to have a whole scenario in front of you, but just being able to see it through the tiny window of the phone screen. It's like whoever developed the thing knew that it would be much better to see everything, but the technology limits it, so they think "oh well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯".
I believe the best use of this is to actually design something that uses the fact of looking through a tiny window as part of the experience. Never really seem anything like that though, but i haven't seem much anyway.
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2016, 07:15:02 PM »

I know almost nothing about this. But my feeling towards it is that if augumented reality is used "just" to show 3d models and scenery upon the table, it is not really thinking about the medium. It's just bad to have a whole scenario in front of you, but just being able to see it through the tiny window of the phone screen. It's like whoever developed the thing knew that it would be much better to see everything, but the technology limits it, so they think "oh well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯".
I believe the best use of this is to actually design something that uses the fact of looking through a tiny window as part of the experience. Never really seem anything like that though, but i haven't seem much anyway.

One idea is you could have a game that shows both players different views of the board. For instance show certain properties of a piece to only one player. Sort of an extension to what games like stratego do.

Feels like there's an opportunity to do something with a boardgame that has a focus on deception.
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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2016, 08:51:13 PM »

One idea is you could have a game that shows both players different views of the board. For instance show certain properties of a piece to only one player. Sort of an extension to what games like stratego do.

Feels like there's an opportunity to do something with a boardgame that has a focus on deception.

That's a good one.

Years ago I saw a boardgame in a magazine (Diplomats, by R. Wayne Schmittberger), where you're working with pieces with different powers on a grid (like chess), but you're diplomats (ambassadors, chargés d'affaires, etc.) trying to escort slow & weak citizens to the enemy's home base.

It would be neat to do a spy extraction game like that, with the addition of augmented reality.  There's a bunch of pieces representing citizens, and you're trying to get a few of them (your spies) to the extraction site.  You know which ones are your spies by looking through the A.R. screen, but not your enemy's.  (But you can mark a few hypotheses and follow their progress, again by looking through the A.R. screen.)  So you're trying to set up safe passage for your spies without letting on which ones they are.
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« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2016, 01:52:49 AM »

Battleships?
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« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2016, 03:36:48 AM »

Battleships?
Don't really see the point of the AR at all there, tho. You can just have your ships on your screen like a regular game, without seeing the other player's screen. I don't see what the AR adds.

The Stratego idea is great, tho.
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« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2016, 03:52:09 AM »

Yeah I wasn't thinking about copying it straight. There could be npc / neutral ships and only you on your screen see which are yours. You could scan ships to learn about them for example.

Or smugglers / pirates vs the coast guard.
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