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with https://www.gamestructor.com/ you can build board games online. Create all game components online digitally, then play in the site within online board game room with friends.

Playing a game

When you first start a game it will start out as a blank screen. Select one of the links at the top to navigate your game. Anything you do on any page will stay in sync with all users until the game ends. All moves are saved instantly, so if something catastrophic happens you will be right where you left off. The game room allow you text chat to all players or a video session.

Game board screen - token moves appear to all users as you move them. The add tokens button will allow you to add any additional tokens you need during the game. Click on a token will bring up the properties window to update your token.

Cards in hand screen - here is where you can draw cards to your hand, play cards from your hand, or play cards from decks directly into play. These cards are only visible to you. Any card you put into play is visible to all users.

Cards in play screen - Cards can be picked up, moved around, written on, flip over, and turned around. This is the global area for game cards.

Dice screen - select which dice you want to roll and how many and click roll. The mini viewer will be updated with the same results, so all players can see the rolls no matter which screen they are on.

How to Make a Game

Step 1: Building Board Tiles

1.) You can draw directly on the tile. You can use the pencil icon and eraser toggle your editing mode and change the background color and pencil color with the color pickers. You can also add text to your tile and change the color of the text so it stands out during the game. The background color picker allows you to change the opacity on the tile which allows you many creative options.

2.) If your not good with drawing in the editor, there are templates you can choose from that will automatically fill in the art once you click on a template. After you have selected your template you can apply your own finishing touches to it.

3.) The Pixelate button will transform any image you upload and convert it to the tile canvas in pixel format.

4.) You can search the other tiles that are made public by other users and copy them to your library. If you have earned enough reputation or support GameStructor using Patreon.

5.) Users with enough reputation or support the site, will have the ability to upload their own image in a non-pixel format. Image import does have size restrictions and will be reviewed by an administrator.

Step 2: Building Board Tokens

You have the same 5 options to make your tokens as you did the tiles.

1.) Drawing directly on the tile

2.) Using a template

3.) Pixel Image import

4.) Copy a public token

5.) Non Pixel Image import

Step 3: Build the Game Board

use the drop down buttons to select which tiles and tokens you want to add to the board. After it's added you can drag it anywhere on the board. These will be the starting location for the tokens and the locked position for the tiles. Whenever a tile or token is selected it will appear opaque and an additional dialog will appear in the top corner. These are additional properties you can apply to the token, or tile before the game starts. You will be able to edit these some of these properties during game play. layout the tiles and tokens to match the original image at the start of the instructable. The game deck and dice will be created with similar steps done used to create the game board.

Step 4: Create Game Cards

The editors for the cards are similar to creating and editing tokens and tiles. There are additional fields to put a description and title for the cards. The area for artwork is the canvas (the grayed out area).

Step 5: Create Dice Sides

Before you can make a die you first need to make die sides to do this use the editor to make the sides like you would for other assets like tokens.

Step 6: Create Game Deck and Dice

the deck and dice editors are very similar to use them what you do is press the add card button then select the card you want. repeat as many times as you want then make a name for the deck/die

Step 7: Create Game Rules

the rule editor provides a template to construct your games rules. You can add your tiles, tokens, cards, and dice sides to the rules to help explain. The game rules can be viewed during the game for reference only. Gamestructor cannot enforce these rules. It is up to the players to obey them correctly. When you add an component to the rules it will appear in the editor as a word with brackets around it. example: ([Nebula]) Don't worry when you save the rules it will draw out the component when viewing.

Step 8: Creating the Game

Gamestructor provides a wizard to add all your game components to your game. Follow the 7 steps to pick your board, dice, decks, max cards a player can hold, and which tokens the users can add. Step 7 is just the finalizing step.

After you create your game, you need to create your game room to host your game. You have the option to password protect your room to control who joins. Click the host button to start your game.

Once your in the game room you have to select which game to play and click host. You have three options to choose from: your games, library games, or any public game in Gamestructor.