I recently made Fruit available to play online on Tabletop Simulator, and while many board game enthusiasts will be familiar with Tabletop Simulator (or TTS, as it's usually abbreviated) a lot won't, so this will give you a quick introduction to what it is and how you can use it to play Fruit and a lot of other games online. What exactly is Tabletop Simulator? It's a simulation of a tabletop. That sounds facetious, but it really is little more than an online simulation of a table on which you can play games. It isn't a game itself, it's a platform in which people can put games. TTS is exclusively available on Steam. Steam, in case you weren't aware, is a digital games distribution platform created by Valve (the same people who made Half Life, if you're into video games). OK, those are the basics. Here's what you need to actually do. 1. Get Steam on your computer Go to https://store.steampowered.com and look for the "Install Steam" button. It's green, and it'll be somewhere at the top of the screen: Go ahead and click that, and install the app however you install things on your computer. It's free, so don't worry about that. Once it's finished installing, launch it and click the "Create New Account" button - you'll need to set up an account for yourself. After you've created an account, the Steam home page should display (usually after a pop-up). Click on Store, then in the search bar type "Tabletop Simulator". Now we're getting somewhere! 2. Buy Tabletop Simulator Yes, "buy" - sadly there's no such thing as a free lunch. Currently TTS retails for $19,99 in the US, but the good thing about that is that TTS provides access to a large number of tabletop games that have been uploaded into its digital vaults. So - scroll down and click the green "Add To Cart" button, then select "Purchase for myself" and complete the payment using your preferred method. Once you've done this, TTS will begin to download onto your computer and you'll be ready to use it. 3. Get Fruit Once TTS has finished downloading (and still in Steam) click on Your Library - this will display your list of purchased games (which at this point will only include TTS). Click on TTS, then click on Workshop - this is where people upload the various tabletop games that you can play in TTS. In the search bar search for Fruit (prototype) - if you type exactly this then you'll get the prototype of Fruit as your first result: Click on the panel, then click on the green Subscribe button. This will tell TTS to make Fruit visible to you when you launch the game. Congratulations - Fruit is now available for you to play in TTS! 4. Play Fruit! In Steam, back in Your Library, click on TTS and click Play. When the start screen appears, click on Create, then Single Player, then Workshop. You should only see Fruit (prototype) in there - select it and click Load. At this point, Fruit will load in TTS and you (and any others who have TTS) can interact with it fully! 5. Read how to use TTS OK, maybe this should have been number 3 or 4, but never mind. TTS is pretty intuitive, but there are some things that take some getting used to, so I'd recommend reading the TTS Knowledge Base for some basic tips. There - I hope that this has demystified TTS for you if you're completely new to it...and I also hope that you give Fruit a try.
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