Testing a Video Board Game

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I’m currently testing a board game idea that might or might now have an audience. Ever heard of that weird trend in the 90’s called the video board game, where the players set up a board game, play a VHS that came with the game, and play along with someone on the TV barking orders at them once in a while?

Well, I’m getting close to done with writing out the cards and instructions for a game like that. It’s a livestream board game, which is like a video board game, but instead of a rat puppet imposing his tyrannical decrees on the players, you watch a livestream or a novel VOD and score points based on conditions reminiscent of a drinking game/bingo card. Or the streamer can impose their tyrannical decrees on the players if they’re so inclined.

Would anyone here be interested in playing such a game? And if so, how should I set up a working prototype? I’m not very good at programming, but I am familiar with user-end use of Tabletop Simulator and Roll20, and I can also make one with real paper and pawns. I’d also need to schedule a time to get together for it.

What say y’all? If I feel like the game has been effectively beta tested, I’d like to make a stream as an instruction video for the game and a free game that comes with it.

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I really love the concept, super curious as to what kind of experience you’d like to set up for the players.
Depending on whether you’d have your players online or in person will change the scoring system and what actions you would have them take. For scoring digitally I would probably use some sort of stat, but there are so many options available. You could have players dress up in more clothes, add cards to a stack, place pins on a board, make drawings on a paper!

I would watch the stream and play with friends if the option was available, happy to help test. For online play, table top simulator (on steam) tends to be the easiest for players to manipulate cards in a pseudo real life space. VirtualTableTops like OwlbearRodeo have real time visual updates so you can see players move tokens around if that is useful.

You could also make it a chat interaction game with all your cards displayed by the streamer if you wanted to make it super easy to play similar to a jackbox party game!

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