Gather town + OGS

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@Lys

I used Discord just once and it looked like a normal online (audio) meeting: everybody in the same room, everybody hears what everybody else says. Maybe it’s just my ignorance.

I think you’re right and others miss the point slightly of the functionality of gather town. (it’s not really an RPG/game afaik.)

I’ve heard of Physics conferences online these days where people have used gather town for poster presentations for example. Much easier to move around and start conversations like IRL without having to worry about which channels to join etc or possibly make a new channel to start a side conversation.

I think once its lightweight enough to use it sounds good.

@BHydden

Discord is your own private server very easy to set up many different chat or voice channels so you can have a main lobby and also unique channels for each board.

Now you could of course make multiple voice channels in Discord. Maybe designate x channels for games and another few for just other discussion separate or unrelated to the games. It’s relatively easy to drop in and out of voice channels too.

Actually crossposting here

@ronin3

A scribble board so that we can draw together random lines while playing (like jamboard / sketch.io / aggie.io / etc) (for premium users: three whiteboards; a private one for each player, and a shared one where both can draw)

Gather town seems to support something like this if you and the opponent were together, it shows a video loop on the main page of people drawing on a whiteboard