

After all, it mimics the inherently collective experience of playing board games as well as it possible can in an online environment. Tabletop Simulator is designed for social interaction. As always, you can use the timestamps in the YouTube description to skip to specific sections.Ġ:27 Loading DrBo6’s TTS Tutorial room again.Ģ:12 EXERCISE 1: Assigning player colors and seatingģ:44 EXERCISE 2: Manipulating cards and decksĥ:34 EXERCISE 3: Picking up multiple objectsħ:00 EXERCISE 4: Shuffling, drawing and dealingġ0:55 EXERCISE 5: Duplicating items with copy-pasteĢ0:38 EXERCISE 11: Whispering to other playersĢ1:40 EXERCISE 12: Blindfold and perspectiveĢ4:19 Lines and calculating distance between objectsĢ6:25 ASSIGNMENT: Load a game and play it Episode 3 – Collaborating as a Group While the video provides a detailed look into each one of its exercises, you are welcome to skip it and move directly to the room.

This video features a training room that will help you practice the skills that you used in the tutorial, while showing you some more advanced yet commonly used features of Tabletop Simulator. While the Tabletop Simulator tutorial provides you with most of the basic controls needed to play a game, you will quickly find that there is a lot more to it. However, if you are entirely new to games, this is your starting point.ġ:01 Installing Tabletop Simulator through Steamģ:56 Switching from TTS to other applications and backĤ:42 Fixing non-loading assets when loading gamesĥ:40 Joining a TTS game session hosted by someone elseĦ:06 Creating your own game session and finding games to playħ:08 Subscribing to the DrBo6’s TTS Tutorial gameĨ:26 Assignment: Do the official tutorial Episode 2 – Manipulation Objects If you’re an avid gamer, I would recommend simply doing the TTS tutorial instead or looking at the YouTube timestamps of the video to pick the topics that you might not know about. This section is really aimed towards beginners. I think the series that I put together does a good job at achieving that outcome, so I wanted to share it with the community in case others would find it interesting. However, siince some of my classes are towards absolutely beginners – some of which who are taking it as their only game design class – I needed a quick tutorial series that would take my students from knowing nothing about games to being able to prototype a game in TTS quickly. Being an avid Tabletop Simulator modder myself, TTS was the obvious choice to have my students to quick prototypes. I teach some game design classes and with Covid I had to move all my assignments online. A video crash course that will take you from being an absolute beginner when it comes to anything games to being able rapidly prototype your own games through a Tabletop Simulator mod in about 2 hours.
