Desperate Gods - Open Source Boardgame

[Tzaero]

I stumbled upon this, these guys make some pretty interesting stuff when they ain't working on their other game.




The download: http://cdn.wolfire.com/desperategods/de ... win_42.zip
Heres the source aswell: https://github.com/David20321/FTJ

 

[Tzaero]

 

[Random]

Berekan, Ed and I played a quick game of this and agreed that it shows a hell of a lot of potential, and hope that somebody picks up the source code and runs with it. It could easily be adapted into a general purpose tabletop gaming program or specifically a Magic: The Gathering digital playing field.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Gameplay seems cool, though I think the physics based interface is really derpy.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Would anyone be up for a game if I bothered to download it?

 

[Ulminati]

The game itself looks meh, but the interface is pretty sweet. Now all we need is for someone to sit down and make components for twilight imperium :3

 

[Grunker]

The game itself looks meh, but the interface is pretty sweet. Now all we need is for someone to sit down and make components for twilight imperium :3

Better yet: Components for TI with an easy tile-creator to make your own universe!

 

[Destroid]

It's not the first virtual tabletop ever.

 

[Ulminati]

No, but it's a very nice virtual tabletop and it looks to run a lot smoother than VASSAL. I also like the physics engine, because that means we can have the cube tower of the new Shogun game

 

[Undead Phoenix]

The physics engine they're using looks pretty sweet.

 

[Excidium]

Actually throwing the dice is p. sexy.

 

[Gragt]

I'd like to see Horus Heresy like that.

 

[Yeesh]

I was a bit sad to hear the gentleman in the video say the base game is a mixture of Chutes & Ladders and Diablo. But I sure found it exciting that this is open source and could be modified to support who knows how many awesome games. But then I was a bit sad again to see there doesn't seem to be much of a modding community or much of a community at all. Anyone heard anything exciting about this lately, like a decent conversion or two? Or is there some similar program that's better and totally eclipsed it? Or are boardgames super unpopular these days. Fantasy Flight Games seems prosperous enough...

 

[Random]

I was a bit sad to hear the gentleman in the video say the base game is a mixture of Chutes & Ladders and Diablo. But I sure found it exciting that this is open source and could be modified to support who knows how many awesome games. But then I was a bit sad again to see there doesn't seem to be much of a modding community or much of a community at all. Anyone heard anything exciting about this lately, like a decent conversion or two? Or is there some similar program that's better and totally eclipsed it? Or are boardgames super unpopular these days. Fantasy Flight Games seems prosperous enough...

There's a handful of similar programs but none incorporate real physics. This is the best, best way to make a digital playing environment but you're right, nobody cares enough to modify it to play other games at all.

Also, boardgames are extremely unpopular these days, FFG is just the exception thanks to WARHAMMER 40K.