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A few friends and I invented a board game several years ago and we all thought this pandemic time would be a great opportunity to get back into it.

I set up a real time board game maker online, called DoomGrid[0]. It's very basic and just uses Firebase to sync a bunch of game objects across everyone's game board.

We also published the rules for our invented game recently[1] (warning, only 70% complete). We've now spent over 10+ hours developing those rules and the story behind them.

If you haven't tried inventing a game yet, I'd highly recommend it. It's really fun! I personally enjoy it just as much as actually playing the finished game. And it's very rewarding the play something you crafted from scratch.

[0] https://doomgrid.com/

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBGlrMk4By5IZ28yCqq3vHAo...

I took this game design course[0] on Coursera for fun and found it pleasing. The students are asked to invent constrained games as assignments and they get feedback on them from their peers.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-design/home/welcome

A friend and I made a game a few weeks ago and it's also just simply synchronizes the board using a server to store the game state.

It's a Codenames clone you can find here http://those.codes

This looks great. Do you think your friend might add a short paragraph to the home page explaining what this does? Might engender a little more trust.

I'm totally gonna use this to play Codenames with my parents-in-law.

That's very polished, I like the "draw yourself" animation.

Had you looked into using https://boardgame.io/ for doing state management?

I prefer having more freedom than a turn-based system provides — the the setup I currently have is actually super simple, but I'll look into this for the next turn-based game I make.

This looks like a blast! I'll have to share it with my friends this weekend. We always think of new board game ideas but never take them anywhere. DoomGrid could really help.

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