tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post3112274082141590953..comments2024-03-13T15:24:57.063-04:00Comments on Scrum in Miniature: Bridging the Gap: Scrum Con 2020 Summer InvitationalJoe Procopiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877692244537194278noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-1362919514772654242020-07-27T01:12:24.041-04:002020-07-27T01:12:24.041-04:00Well done on putting on a successful virtual conn!...Well done on putting on a successful virtual conn! It all looks great to me! I like lion Rampant and have got dragon Rampant in case I want to use my fantasy figures for anything other than frostgrave!<br />Best Iain caveadsum1471https://www.blogger.com/profile/02174163740406928172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-77592850434487895472020-07-22T23:04:37.436-04:002020-07-22T23:04:37.436-04:00Good to hear from you, Ivor. If you think of it, d...Good to hear from you, Ivor. If you think of it, drop me an email and catch me up on how you're doing. I've been wondering about you, and hope all is well. If we do something like a Fall Invitational, I'll be sure to reach out? Take care, friend!Joe Procopiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08877692244537194278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-48614154356314257952020-07-20T23:03:46.867-04:002020-07-20T23:03:46.867-04:00Great stuff Joe! Congrats on a successful virtual ...Great stuff Joe! Congrats on a successful virtual con 😀Ivor Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11928387567891480797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-46939212013832825002020-07-13T22:37:39.343-04:002020-07-13T22:37:39.343-04:00Thanks for the tip. I actually called my internet ...Thanks for the tip. I actually called my internet service provider (Verizon Fios) tonight to ask them about mesh networks and extenders.<br />Joe Procopiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08877692244537194278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-26029899030595336912020-07-13T22:36:40.647-04:002020-07-13T22:36:40.647-04:00Definitely have everybody roll their own dice. Tha...Definitely have everybody roll their own dice. That's part of the fun! And you want to give the player's something tangible/tactile to do...helps make the experience more real for them. Let me know how it goes if you decide to take the plunge. Happy to answer more questions as you explore it further. A big part of me writing this post was a hope that it would inspire others to try their hand at tabletop gaming via webcam. Joe Procopiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08877692244537194278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-45036998561556819012020-07-13T18:55:11.407-04:002020-07-13T18:55:11.407-04:00Hi Joe! Yes, very much. My work has a paid accoun...Hi Joe! Yes, very much. My work has a paid account for Zoom, and I didn't realize that you can tell it which window to pin - I'd thought that the speaker always became the dominant window, so your friends would pop up over the main battle map and whatnot. I was guessing (until I took a closer look) that maybe you were livestreaming to youtube or something, and running a Zoom meeting alongside. I'll investigate more on how to choose a window to be 'dominant'. I presume folks just rolled their own dice, and reported results? I haven't found a great dice roller to use with friends. Most are kinda clunky or just not very nice looking. Thanks again. Xanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772163578525334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-64021871742557809042020-07-13T18:38:02.154-04:002020-07-13T18:38:02.154-04:00After trying a few different video conference serv...After trying a few different video conference services, I found Zoom was the easiest to use and configure. The only downside is that if you only sign up for the free membership level, I think your meetings cannot be any longer than 40 minutes. I went ahead and subscribed to their base plan which gives you unlimited meeting length, and some cloud storage for saving videos of the meeting. With Zoom, you simply schedule a meeting and email everybody the link and password with whoever you'd like to attend. This allows you to basically log in with as many attendees as you want (up to something live 500), so that I logged into/attended the meeting with my computer and its webcam to stream one view of the table, and I logged into/attended the same Zoom meeting with my iPhone to provide another angle on the action. As the meeting's host, you can dictate the dominant window that everyone sees, but we found that it is better not to, so that the players themselves can choose a dominant window by "pinning it." This in essence allows the players to toggle back and forth between my bird's eye webcam view of the table or my "on the ground" iPhone view of the action (though technically they could make any meeting participant's window the dominant one). When any attendee chooses one dominant window, they still get to see everybody else in a reduced size row or column of the participants' streams running alongside the main/pinned. If the host doesn't choose )"showcase") a particular view and the attendees don't pin one for themselves, the default is that whoever is speaking temporarily gets the largest window. Look at some of my photos above and that should give you a sense of how you can configure the display.<br /><br />Does that help? <br />Joe Procopiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08877692244537194278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-29492574215462580822020-07-13T18:21:36.573-04:002020-07-13T18:21:36.573-04:00Glad you had a good time, too, John. I agree, I ho...Glad you had a good time, too, John. I agree, I hope we adopt it as our approach to getting our regular Second Saturday games on track, and it was certainly easy enough to plan as a "mini-con," of sorts. I'm game to give it another spin in the fall.<br />Joe Procopiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08877692244537194278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-22719778235191624322020-07-13T17:41:57.985-04:002020-07-13T17:41:57.985-04:00...And regarding internet: I recently went from a ......And regarding internet: I recently went from a wireless router with a signal booster to a mesh network (my ISP, Sonic, uses Eero) and it works great. Strong signal everywhere, and devices will seamlessly swap from the main router to the satellite router automatically as you move into that part of the house. It's still not perfect, but it was a very large improvement. Call your ISP and see what they recommend. It came with a modest increase in cost ($5?), but a vast improvement in serviceXanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772163578525334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-63651848998340182192020-07-13T16:19:16.754-04:002020-07-13T16:19:16.754-04:00So you're emboldening me to try something like...So you're emboldening me to try something like this myself... I have Dragon Rampant, but have never tried it. Maybe it's time? What online system did you use to allow players to see each other, as well as have the overhead cam up? Can you (ie, the "game master") dial in to Zoom or Google Meet the the overhead cam, the close up cam, and maybe one more, to show you? I'm trying to think through the logistics here... Thanks!Xanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772163578525334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412156935427062220.post-36118624650535457202020-07-13T11:25:40.048-04:002020-07-13T11:25:40.048-04:00Great write up Joe! I had a lot of fun playing in ...Great write up Joe! I had a lot of fun playing in your Dragon Rampant game as well as running my dungeon scrum. Thanks for posting some photos and a write up as I my camera was occupied streaming the "adventurer's eye view" during the game.<br /><br />I think the weekend's game were a big success and hope we can give it a try again in the future.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300726634407646984noreply@blogger.com