I generally don’t like digital versions of board games (I find playing in person with friends energizing, and playing digitally draining) but Galaxy Trucker’s first half seems especially poorly suited for a digital version?
I was thinking, what if you could do a hybrid… Have a Galaxy Trucker app on your phone with which you snap a photo of the constructed ships, it processes the photo and comes up with brief videos showing the results (good ships doing well, bad ships falling apart) and some scores. Another fun alternative would be a mashup with the SpaceTeam idea, where you had to fly the ship through a hazard course in hectic SpaceTeam style...
I think it depends a lot on the game and on the quality of the digital version. This game and Through the Ages (by the same devs) do have really good digital implementations that are a joy to play on tablets (that’s what I’ve tried).
Yet there is definitely something awesome about the tactility of real tiles over touch screens. But having to explain and double check rules instead of getting feedback from the digital system is actually not very energizing for me.
This is one of the reasons I hope something like dynamicland.org will make it, then we could potentially get the best of both worlds 🙂
The digital version makes the second half a lot quicker, so maybe that’s enough? 🙂
I generally don’t like digital versions of board games (I find playing in person with friends energizing, and playing digitally draining) but Galaxy Trucker’s first half seems especially poorly suited for a digital version?
I was thinking, what if you could do a hybrid… Have a Galaxy Trucker app on your phone with which you snap a photo of the constructed ships, it processes the photo and comes up with brief videos showing the results (good ships doing well, bad ships falling apart) and some scores. Another fun alternative would be a mashup with the SpaceTeam idea, where you had to fly the ship through a hazard course in hectic SpaceTeam style...
I think it depends a lot on the game and on the quality of the digital version. This game and Through the Ages (by the same devs) do have really good digital implementations that are a joy to play on tablets (that’s what I’ve tried).
Yet there is definitely something awesome about the tactility of real tiles over touch screens. But having to explain and double check rules instead of getting feedback from the digital system is actually not very energizing for me.
This is one of the reasons I hope something like dynamicland.org will make it, then we could potentially get the best of both worlds 🙂