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Let's Play a Game! A place to discuss all things board game, regardless of genre. Everything from Scrabble and Catan to Ark Nova, 1830 and beyond is fair game! That means we have blackjack. Bring your own hookers, sorry.

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Online Board game (boardgamearena.com)

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I just wanted to share this amazing platform for playing board games online.

It has a huge selection of games, with good translations to many languages.

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[–] pdxfed 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Love the concept; are they open source? Would love to get gaming further away from the big companies. If it's "free" now, how are users paying for it, with data? Ads? We've seen a well documented history of enshittification so before I dump time into a platform that's my 1a question.

[–] donio 2 points 1 day ago

In general, no the site is not open source. There are however some games whose implementation is public under various licenses. A few examples:

https://github.com/AntonioSoler/bga-santorini https://github.com/micahstairs/bga-innovation https://github.com/bga-devs/bga-heat https://github.com/quietmint/bga-hardback https://github.com/bga-devs/bga-memoir https://github.com/Syarwin/bga-kingdombuilder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

There's a bunch of games that are premium, and require at least 1 player in the game with premium membership to be able to start playing. There's also various other benefits for premium members, like allowing multiple players from the same IP