Appendix 1: BrettspielWelt commands

5. Playing the games
Playing a game in BrettspielWelt follows very often a certain routine independent on the way the
game was actually started. The chosen game is loaded into the game window and in addition to that
you see (depending on the game) other information like player information, game tokens, buttons to
activate things in the game etc. The game in our example is Carcassonne.
Game play typically starts with greeting the players in the room. With this little compliment players
also notice that somebody enters the room for playing games or watching and is not just passing by.
A short ”Hi!” or ”Hallo” is often enough. The reason I’m mentioning the German phrases is that
you will see them very often and it makes sense to know the basic phrases in a typical game play.
Messages are sent to other users by typing them into command line and pressing Enter after that.
All messages in a room are shown in the message field.
If you have not sent the game invitation and enter the room after others it is polite to ask if you can
join the game. In some cases players might want to play in a smaller group so it’s important that
you don’t be to pushy. Asking for permission happens by asking ”May I join?” or ”Darf ich ?” in
German. Persons typically answer by saying something like ”Join”, ”ok”, ”Ja” or even ”j”. Typically
it does not make sense to join the game before you got permission.
You have to join into the game from Game menu or using /join command from the command line.
If you choose an empty game window and invite others in you can already join in and be ready to
welcome other games into the play.
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