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Before moving to France I remember discussions we had amongst my board gaming friends in Bergen on “Could it be possible, and more importantly practical and enjoyable, to continue playing board games over the internet?” Sure one can play games online here and there, in real time, like Puerto Rico or Go, or even at slower pace, like Through the Desert, but the experience remains entirely virtual. The mouse and keyboard can hardly replace the wooden pieces found in a real game… What if we could use webcams and multiple copies of the real game in question? (Technically this has been done for ages with correspondence chess.) What kind of games could one play? Would the the game need to be a game like Caylus or Puerto Rico, or even Go, where all the information is open to all the players, or could one devise a system to transmit hidden information - like cards drawn and such to players afar by for example having someone at the “main game” showing them to a webcam? This has so far remained an experiment of thought, and we’ve continued to play virtual games when needed. Until now…
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