Welcome to PowWow BoardGames

How to use BoardGames

• Choosing and Changing Games
  To select what game to play, choose GAMES ¦ CHOOSE GAME (CTRL-G) from the menu. After a game has started, the keyboard shortcut CTRL-C will always change the options for that game.
• Selecting Game Objects
  Every object except CheckerBoards and Backgammon Boards can be selected by clicking them with the mouse. Also, try click-and-dragging to draw a rectangle around many objects to select them all. To unselect all objects, click anywhere on the table where there are NOT any games objects.
• Moving Game Objects
  Clicking and dragging on any object will cause all selected items to move.
• PopMenus for Everything
  Right clicking on any object will bring up a PopMenu for all of the actions that can be done to that object.
• Talking Within BoardGames
  Choose GAMES ¦ TALK from the Menu or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL-T to chat with fellow GamesPlayers. If PowWow's Text-To-Speech is installed and you choose the CheckBox "Say It Out Loud" the chatted words are spoken aloud by RobotVoice.
• Game Status
  Changing the game's status will allow more people to Join in your game or to View your game without influencing it.
  Check the menu item GAMES ¦ STATUS ¦ ALLOW JOINERS or ALLOW VIEWERS to allow or deny others to enter your game space.
  During two-player games like Checkers or Backgammon, the status is automatically set to not allow joiners after the second person has joined.
• Viewers
  Choose GAMES ¦ SHOW VIEWERS from the Menu to see your game's Viewers. If you enter a game as a Viewer you will only receive data and not send data. You will only be able to View game events and not Influence them.
• Transmitted Window Sizing
  Resizing your BoardGames window causes all connected peoples' windows to also resize. This is so everybody can agree on the gameplaying space available. If a window size larger than your desktop is chosen by a remote gamePlayer, your window will choose a smaller size and transmit that size to the others.
• Detailed Instructions For Each Game
  More detailed help is available for each kind of game:
  [Cards] [Checkers] [Dominoes] [Chess] [Backgammon] [Dice]
  

• PowWow
  In order to use BoardGames you must first have PowWow, at least version 3.2 alpha.
• PowWow PlugIns
  Go here for more information on how to install PowWow PlugIns, becoming a PlugIn developer, and to look for other exciting PowWow PlugIns.
• BoardGames on the WWW
  You can download new releases of BoardGames and report bugs here.