Boardgame Lab

boardgamelab.app is coming soon. Prototype and #playtest #boardgames on your web browser with full rules enforcement. No coding required!

I’ve said that more board game designers should use AI in the development/playtesting process. I’m working with a publisher where my AI just found a dominant strategy that human play testers missed. Ruins the game. Luckily we can now change some rules before it went to print!

@BoardgmScientst Yes, a beta release is planned sometime before the end of the year so stay tuned!

Hey @boardgamelabapp - I just found out about you guys a couple days ago. Are you still working on your app? Release date? Looks very cool - keep going!!! I would definitely use this to mock up #boardgame concepts I have.

The alignment tools are smart enough to lay out hex tiles in a grid pattern, but we're also working on grid generators to automate this entirely.

@MenicaFolden @ConstructTeam @AlanZucconi There are others that are adopting similar models! Boardgame Lab is building an "expression based" approach: boardgamelab.app/blog/visual-sc…

@AlanZucconi I am so frustrated that "spaghetti visual coding" is the only form people are talking about. I love the vertical visual scripting ("event sheet") from @ConstructTeam and would love to see this kind of presentation in more game softwares It even looks like more like "real coding"

Every now and then I see people talking about the difference between VISUAL SCRITPING and CODING. So let me break this down for you. Visual scripting 𝗜𝗦 coding! 👨‍⚖️ And this is why... 🧵👇

What does scripting without writing code look like? Read on: boardgamelab.app/blog/visual-sc… #nocode #boardgames

@_BoardGamer Nice! Looking forward to when it's publicly available! Feel free to reach out if you ever want to trade notes etc.

@_BoardGamer The core engine and backend are in Rust, and the frontend is a combination of WASM and Svelte. Is your playtesting service currently accessible to the public?

@_BoardGamer A lot of the ideas in this thread are already on the roadmap of boardgamelab.app. Would be great to get some feedback from you folks thinking along the same lines!

Blog post about @boardgamelabapp as an alternative to @TabletopSim: boardgamelab.app/blog/tabletop-…

@KindFortress boardgamelab.app

Can we make a list of all the virtual options for prototyping and playtesting board games? Tabletop Simulator Tabletopia Screentop.gg Vorpal Board What else?

Tip: Our docs are interactive. Hover over a step to see the relevant screenshot. Example: docs.boardgamelab.app/tutorials/basi… #boardgames #tabletopgames

Rich Text editing, including the ability to embed properties within text fields!

Repeat layout elements and control the number of the repetitions for individual components from a spreadsheet. #boardgames #tabletopgames #gamedesign

Learn about Layers and Traits in our latest update: boardgamelab.app/blog/layers-an… #tabletop #playtesting #boardgamedesign

@fuzzybinary Notion works well for task management.

Anyone have a preferred lightweight sharable task list system? Seeing Todoist as a possibility. Any others?

Edit layers interactively. Layers can also be connected to a property of the object in order to determine visibility.

@m_guerville @nicolodavis Oh, you should have got a link on the website itself as you signed up. Here it is: preview.boardgamelab.app

@m_guerville @nicolodavis In 7 Wonders Duel, the only thing that doesn't map very well to the set of functionality is the laying out of cards in a pyramid shape and picking "accessible" cards. I'll have to think about how to support mechanics like that. But scoring should be no problem.

@m_guerville @nicolodavis Hey @m_guerville, the first beta version should be available early next year (if you don't mind trying some rough preview versions, those are already available). Yes, a non coder should be able to implement games like 7 Wonders Duel.

@NotTheRealFlo No date yet, but most of the functionality should be in by the end of the year.

@boardgamelabapp ah thats unfortunate. It's probably the functionality we would need to use it for rapid prototyping. When is v1 going to be released?

@boardgamelabapp is there a way to upload .csv files into the data sheet in the preview version? we want to use your tool to prototype our new game and a csv upload would help us immensely.