Anywhere Board Games Reviews

Quite useful software because of feature to upload my own card images. Some troubles related to the fact it is written in PHP, but overall impression is good.

Initially I had not rated this to the full star power, as my mom's ipad couldn't access the program through google hangouts and we needed to use that since we are in different states. However, my mom has a laptop that got it working and the support emails I received were very helpful and prompt! We had wanted to try playing our favorite card games just the two of us in a setting like we were really together in person, unlike words with friends of facebook. So, with the help of the programmers and creators we were able to get the boards set up how we needed for cards by using the shields from the Words game to hide our cards from each other once we loaded the deck of cards. It was so great to be able to hang out with my mom even though we were so many miles apart and it was like we were together since we were on each other's video windows as well! Thank you!

So far this is exactly what I have been looking for to play a family card game live online.

Thanks for so usefull software.

Good games!

Why review my own software? To be fair and open. Right now (as of 7/16/2012) the release of ABG on Google+ Hangouts makes it significantly easier to use, but we are definitely missing help text (for both end-users and game designers). However, I was able to get a good game of Settlers of Catan in and a bunch of games of the Pokemon TCG starter set with my 8 year old. So I achieved my initial goal: to be able to remotely play games with my father who lives pretty far away. I hope to continue to expand the project to make it more useful for the general public.