Tabletopia Blog

We are proud to announce that today, we open Early Access on Steam. The Steam version (with downloadable game client) will work alongside the current browser version of Tabletopia.

All our current users will automatically get an invite code to join Steam for free, just follow these instructions. In addition to the possibility to play games with the client version of Tabletopia, the Steam-version has a new interface for the game catalog, invitations and player-matching sections, in-game rules and some other new features. Try them out! Your feedback is very important to us.

Also, we kindly ask you to help us to promote Tabletopia on Steam. The more users we have, the more opportunities for you to find new friends and good opponents.

You can help us by doing the following:

join our community on steam
try out the steam client (even if you are happy with the browser version)
evaluate our program on steam and add some good words in a review
share our announcement in your social networks etc.

Let’s create the best digital gaming experience together!

Visit Tabletopia on Steam – store page and community page

Or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

Since we got the Greenlight on Steam, we have been working hard to make a downloadable game client. It will work alongside the existing browser version of Tabletopia, but besides a new interface, some very important features will be added – like invitations and players matching section, in-game rules etc.

At this current point in time, we have more than 200 top board games in our catalog to play, with more being added each week.

So become part of the board gaming revolution – join our page in the Steam Store and the Official Tabletopia group!

Thank you!
Tabletopia Team

Dear Friends!

We have created a special demo stage for you – to show you how you can customize and enhance your game with sound options.

https://tabletopia.com/play/tabletopia_demo_stage-3k74uu

At the moment, not many games on Tabletopia have custom sound effects – but take a look at Five seals of Magic to see (and hear) what can be done.

https://tabletopia.com/play/five-seals-of-magic

This is only the beginning; soon we will add more sound and visual effects.

Stay tuned!

Dear Friends and Tabletopia users!

As usual, we would like to give you an overview of what we have done in the last month.

Development

We continue to concentrate our efforts on the development of the Steam version of Tabletopia. The design of all interfaces is finished and we are now working on the actual implementation. You can take a look at some of the pages below.

Steam game catalog Game catalog on Steam

Steam game lobby Game lobby on Steam

Also, very soon we will introduce some new features for better control of game flow:

Host: The game owner who will be able to control invitations, players seats and when the game begins, pauses and finishes (they can also delegate some rights to other players)
Phases: Gameplay will be divided into phases – “before the game”, “in play”, “paused” etc. so all participants will know that for example when the game is paused, nobody is able to move game pieces.

Our community

During December, we have sent invite codes for early access and more than 1000 new members joined Tabletopia – Now it is easier to find partners and opponents to play games with. We recommend you use Tabletopians – a Discord community server https://discord.gg/0WlbLX4qhPcSJJbP . It is the best place to find opponents and use its voice & text chat app for communication during a game.

We are working on our own toolset for:

players matching service,
player’s reputation and rating,
voice communication,

but it will take a few more months to complete this.

Content

We have updated and considerably expanded our FAQ for Players:

http://help.tabletopia.com/knowledge-base/faq/

and the FAQ for Game Creators:

http://help.tabletopia.com/knowledge-base/faq-for-game-creators/

Game catalog

Many new games were added recently and even more will be implemented soon. From now on, you can follow our Tabletopia Official List Of Games on BGG

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/201401/tabletopia-official-list-games

Stronghold 2nd edition Stronghold (2nd edition) from Portal Games is coming very soon 🙂

With best regards,

Tim Bokarev

CEO Tabletopia

We are happy to welcome to Tabletopia all our backers and supporters with Early Access. All invite codes were sent in the last couple of days. If you haven’t received yours, please check your junk/spam folder and send us a message to info@tabletopia.com We’ll try to fix all problems as soon as we can.

Our team is really proud to have such an awesome community of backers and we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We also hope that during this holiday time, Tabletopia will bring you and your friends many hours of fun!

New games are coming each week, just browse our catalog with more than 100 titles and find something special for your group. And we even have found for you special game for these holidays – 12 Days of Christmas https://tabletopia.com/play/12-days-of-christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Tabletopia Team

Hi folks! We think it’s a good idea to post a weekly list of games which have recently been published on Tabletopia. So, that’s what we’ve decided to do! With Tabletopia, you will always be able to try something new.

1. Mage Wars Academy

What would it be like be a powerful Mages, studying your art, and honing your craft, at the Academy in the world of Mage Wars? How would you spells work against each other? How could different spells and equipment work in battle? How could your choices, your strategy and your decisions turn the tides of battle?

Unlike Arena, Mage Wars Academy from Arcane Wonders is played in an area, without a board. This unique design implements both freedom and speed of play into the Mage Wars system. All creatures are considered to be in the same zone, making combat, and choices, challenging and exciting!

Number of Players: 2

Playing time: 20 − 30 min.

Suggested age: 10+

Mechanics: Simultaneous Action Selection, Variable Player Powers

Theme: Fantasy, Combat

Play zone: https://tabletopia.com/play/mage-wars-academy-obyku5

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Table with skybox or surface?

A custom surface is more complicated to implement, but in most cases it looks much better than a table (there some exceptions of course).

In theory you can make your surface very colorful, and full of pictures etc. but we recommend it be kept simple in order to not distract players from the actual game objects.

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Viticulture

Village

Sword-&-Sorcery

Scythe

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Alien-Frontiers

Tabletopia – launched on Steam

Tabletopia is coming this month to Steam

Sound demo stage

Early access for GameScouts, GameGeeks and GameAddicts… and many new games to discover over Christmas time!!

Games for this weekend

1. Mage Wars Academy

Visual design guide

Table with skybox or surface?