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On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:41 PM Clay Blankenship [email protected]
[spielfrieks] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Any thoughts on the new sites.....Tabletopia, Tabletop Simulator,
> BoiteAJeux? I tried a game of On the Underground on Tabletopia and it
> seemed really cumbersome moving things around in a 3-D environment.
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I remember about 20 years ago someone on the Internet had written a piece
of software called "garry". It was a chess simulator. I can't find it any
more so all of this is from memory. The author had decided that he was
going to just have 3-D chess pieces, with somewhat realistic pieces and
physics collisions, all on a chess board. The game didn't know the rules
of chess and didn't enforce them. He figured this would be the same as,
say, having a chess set in the park; people would come by, maybe set up a
game, maybe start playing, maybe walk away.
What he did not anticipate, which is perhaps obvious in hindsight, is that
it was very rare for games to be finished. People would set up a game, but
then not follow the rules or follow turns, and then maybe other people
would come and knock pieces around because hey, knocking around objects is
fun for 3-year-olds (by which I mean people who have only been aware of the
Internet for 3 years). Eventually he gave in a little bit and added some
code so that you could see who was around the chess set and when a piece
was moved, you could see who moved it. Which helped.
I wish I knew what happened to "garry".
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