I've recently started using Google Wave for my Palladium Fantasy PBeM. I have found a decent dice gadget and using it seems to cause no instability in the wave, but am having a little trouble using other, more collaborative gadgets like Napkin.
Has anyone else been using it?
Using Google Wave for PBeM
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Re: Using Google Wave for PBeM
Google Wave is a collaborative online meeting space which is still very much in its infancy. It allows a persistent record to be kept and edited by all parties, with add-in gadgets and bots for things like drawing, dice rolling, adding images, etc.
The article in this link posits some suggestions about how to use wave for gaming, and we are finding most of the suggestions to be good.
http://gameplaywright.net/?p=1019
The article in this link posits some suggestions about how to use wave for gaming, and we are finding most of the suggestions to be good.
http://gameplaywright.net/?p=1019
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Re: Using Google Wave for PBeM
I guess it doesn't matter now... Google has announced that their experiment with Wave will be terminated.
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Re: Using Google Wave for PBeM
While they may not be continuing working on Wave as a stand alone application, I saw somewhere that they will be incorporating what they learned and did into other projects.
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Re: Using Google Wave for PBeM
There are many different virtual tabletops out there, although I have to ask: why not use Skype? If all of you have Skype, then the entire session is free. You could use this so you can see and hear everyone, and then if you need to use one of the virtual tabletops available to share maps and dice rolling and such (as well as communicating secret stuff to only certain players).
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Re: Using Google Wave for PBeM
Except for the fact that it requires a webcam and/or microphone (most webcams nowadays have one built in, but you never know).
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Re: Using Google Wave for PBeM
IIRC, they will be incorporating things from Wave into new projects.
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Re: Using Google Wave for PBeM
It appears then that my laptop is the exception, not the rule. My wife's laptop that she bought nearly two years ago has one built in, yet mine that I bought a little over 6 months ago does not.
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Re: Using Google Wave for PBeM
how about Microsoft SharedView as an alternative...
It allows you to share certain desktop applications with people in real time over the internet, and has a chat feature. anyone using this?
It allows you to share certain desktop applications with people in real time over the internet, and has a chat feature. anyone using this?