I would like to get a game going again, in about an hour would be best. I'm about to get off to go eat some yummy food, but afterwards i'm all for playing again. Hopefully by the time I get back more people will see this in decide to join the band wagon.
So roughly 6:00 pm Central Time Zone, Tuesday Nov. 27th, 2012. So anyone wanting to join be ready.
Edit: No need to rush Evan, unless it's a long trip there. The game could be put off a half hour or so if need be.
I'm down. Matchstick, you in on this? 6:00 Central?
Man I feel like Tachyon right now, time is moving so sloooooowlllly towards 6.
(I'm in)
Cool cool cool. I'll head back to my room in a second (it's just a 10 minute walk).
Maybe we can find a fourth playtester to join us, I haven't played Kismet or Iron Legacy yet.
Well i'm ready when everyone else is, I guess everyone besides Matchstick can just message me their Google + names and i'll get it set up here in a minute.
Sending mine in a PM in a second.
Sent.
So, how did the game go?
Also, is a Google-Plus account different from a normal Google account? Because I have one of those but never been on Google-Plus. The only reason I have a Google account, I think, is 'cause it and YouTube use the same login details now, so if I'm logged into YouTube then I'm logged into Google. And I check my subscriptions every day (Yogscast is a busy channel!) so that'll be all the time, then ;).
Having a Google account likely means you have a Google+ already set up, you just have to log in. That said, I really don't like the idea of Google+ (I really don't even like the idea of Facebook, the only reason I have an account is that I set it up so long ago because it had a standard unmodifiable layout (which made it much better than MySpace already) and I had a couple friends that sending Facebook messages was simpler than email (for them). And that was about 6-8 years ago. Today, I wouldn't sign up for Facebook either.
If you've got a Google account, setting up Google+ will take no time at all. It's fairly quick.
And the game went well. It was just me, Ronway, and Matchstickman, and we played two games. Google+ is wonderful for this sort of thing. I'd love to play more games online with people here.
I only joined google+ for the video and voice chat, not sure if I will use it for anything else.
Still, if I were to only use it to play Sentinels it's still a good thing to have installed!
And hey, we got stickied!
As of right now i'm only using Google+ for playing Sentinels on. I don't even sign into it unless it is moments before a scheduled game since I don't see a use for it otherwise. I can't wait for the day when I can log onto here and read that someone wants to play a game at a certain time and everyone is just swarming it that there are two or even three games going on at once.
Well, hopefully I'll happen to be checking the forum at the right moment when people have just posted that a game is being set up, and it'll happen to be at a time where I can actually join in (as opposed to about two minutes before I log off to go to bed, or something ;)). Maybe one day I'll be able to join! I also have Skype so if anyone who plans to set up a game happens to be on there, I don't mind if they add me. That way we'll be able to see when each other is online and see if something can be set up over on Google or whatever ;). Was there a reason Google was preferred over, say, Skype? Is there some feature that makes it more conducive to playing a card game? I gather from a comment above that it has a chat window…but Skype basically is a chat window. Or is it just that more people have Google accounts than Skype?
I prefer it because of the video chat is free. Granted the video didn't work as well as I would of liked it to, but maybe something will be worked out to make it super-de-awesome.
I wouldn't plan on using vid-chat. I don't see any reason to (as mentioend above). And I don't have a webcam. I'd be fine with just text chat.
Incidentally, it's "would have", not "would of" ;). Yeah, I know, I'm being pedantic, but it was bugging me ;).
It's not really needed for everyone, but what i did in our last game is I used all those tokens on the screen so people could see damage bonuses and the HP of the villian. The cards aren't seen too well on screen too well, but maybe something will be worked out. Matchstick also doesn't have a webcam and he has been apart of both sessions thus far and both have been huge sucess!
Text chat is so very, very slow compared to voice chat.
I would never want to use text chat. That would take way too long to do anything. Strategizing with everyone would be such a pain. Voice chat is the only way to go, in my opinion. And yeah, video isn't really required, it just depends on what you choose. I used video just because I didn't have a problem with it.
My programming years have made me a bit of a typist, so text chat is not that bad for me. That, plus I feel akward talking via an electronic means (I even will never use pickup windows at restaurants or go to Sonic). Also, I like privacy, and don't like the fact that what I speak into a microphone can easily be heard by someone in the next room or down the hall (I even walk out to the back yard when I talk on the phone). So text is so much better for me than voice.
I wouldn't mind joining up as long as someone helps me out with setup. However, I only posses the original core printing at the moment, and my playtesting kit.
So I've been playing Sentinels for a long time, but haven't been too active in the forums. I live in Japan now, though, so I would really love to possibly get in on some Skype games.