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24 alternatives to Hello Tech Pros: Hosting Remote Tabletop Games with Roll20

Nolan T. Jones on Being Unplugged

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hello Tech Pros: Hosting Remote Tabletop Games with Roll20 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1IB

    Diceright is a virtual tabletop for playing dungeons and dragons with friends on the web. You can watch a quick overview of how it works here: https://tinyurl.com/diceright. And there’s a list of the main features right on the homepage. It’s a Ruby on Rails site that makes heavy use of action cable for keeping the maps and tokens in sync for all players. On the front end, I’m using HTML canvas for the maps and a js library called fabric.js for interacting with the canvas. Otherwise, just jQuery on the front end. I optimized it all to work on mobile too. I built this as a side…

    2023 · diceright.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2RA

    This is a project that I have been working on in my spare time for a while now. It's a new virtual tabletop for playing pen and paper role playing games online, but it takes an entirely different approach than anything out there right now. Rather than trying to turn pen and paper games into video games, with features centered around one-click damage calculations and detailed stats tracking, Roll20 focuses on storytelling. It has completely new features like background music, player journals, and an expansive art library with a built-in web search. The entire system runs on NodeJS, Padrino,…

    2012 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    DICE▲88

    Best gigs, no booking fee

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Play with friends anywhere

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    World’s smartest chess board

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Sparq▲79

    A community for gamers

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Be the first to play tomorrow's games.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Studio▲124

    Roleplaying based messaging app

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Roll dices in a room with friends for roll board games

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Deck▲64

    Presentations for the Post-PC era.

    2013 · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News for freemium games

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Party and family board game with “fairness” algorithm

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Cubits!▲79

    A game where less is more.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Dice rolling, card trading, family fun

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Untap▲61

    The ultimate playtester!

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A startup/TED Talk inspired improv game.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The all-in-one play table for children!

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    pingdeck▲114

    Build smart mini-websites with sharing-superpowers

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    An adictive roleplaying stacking puzzle

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    GameBot▲88

    Telegram's in-app gaming platform

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Twine▲71

    Make your own narrative-based games

    2014 · its alternatives →

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