I'm fully expecting to divide opinions with this one, but hopefully you'll stick with it and consider the benefits of a new game system I'm working on: http://nerdclub-uk.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/board%20game
It's basically an electronic board game, which uses a smartphone/tablet/pc for all the game logic. I had the idea a while back, when playing Blood Bowl with my nephew. I'd forgotten how complicated such a simple game was, with multiple dice rolls, modifiers, table-result look-ups and so on. For me, it spoiled the game!
So I thought, what if I had a board which could track all the pieces, and therefore work out which piece was moving, and put all of the game logic into a computer: I could get on with just playing the game, the computer could tell me of (virtual) dice roll results, and the whole thing would zip along, just like a game of fantasy football should do.
I've also been thinking about how such a set-up could be used to play games over the internet, for two-player "hidden-movement" games: almost like bringing (ZX Spectrum classic) Laser Squad back to the tabletop. Imagine playing Space Hulk or Space Crusade, where the aliens really were hidden (rather than blips you can track on the board) and could pop out from around any corner!
It's still very early days yet, but I'm hoping to have a working prototype in the next few weeks (sadly, real work gets in the way these days) but here's the question.......
.... would you trust a system like this - especially if it generated some bad-luck dice rolls during your turn?
