Lately we’ve been streaming our board game misadventures.
With the webcam set up over our table, we can capture a reasonable amount of the play area, but things are quite hard to read. So I’ve been experimenting with some overlays to convey pertinent game information.
Here’s a demo of the overlay in action – the popup in the top left only appears for a little while when I change the “last tile visited” variable, and the player information allows us to track all of the different resources and upgrades that the players pick up along the way.
I think keeping the overlays updated is quite the distraction though – I guess that’s my excuse for John going 3-0 undefeated tonight!
These streams keep being at awkward times for me or you know I’d be there. Looks like amazing production values, but you definitely need me there to update the overlays so that you can focus on playing.
Orrrrr perhaps I can be a proxy for you and you do all the playing and my job is *solely* to update overlays and move your pieces across the board.