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11 pointssanketn4y ago6 comments

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A lot of people are working remotely for the first time and it can lead to a feeling of isolation and having no social bond with the team.

While we are solving for the larger problem by building games teams can play together within Slack with our product called Bored, this is our attempt to bring some fun and banter to everyday standups on Zoom.

There are 30 different icebreaker backgrounds, one for each day of the month. The scrum master puts up a new one everyday and everyone answers the question on it for some good old banter.

Would love to know what you folks think.

TechBro86154y ago

This looks like fun! Well as long as my boss doesn't force me to do it...

I wanted to know what the program looked like live, but I couldn't find an actual screenshot (just the mockups). I think it would be a good idea to have a few screenshots of the actual Zoom interface with people playing the game. Otherwise there's no way for me to get a sense of what it feels like without waiting for a group of people to play with.

gus_massa4y ago

I was confused by the carrousel at the top and I though the backgrounds include the photos of the actors. But IIUC the backgrounds you give are in the second row.

What is the license? If I use one of this backgrounds in a talk, can I upload it to YouTube?

sanketnOP4y ago

Fair point.

Yes, please go ahead use it in the talk, upload on YouTube and use it wherever else you want :)

gus_massa4y ago

The page does not specify the license, so people will be afraid of using it.

You should read all the possible licenses to ensure that people can use it as intended, but can not use in unexpected ways.

For example sometimes people choose CC0, and then get angry when other people redistribute it without attribution.

I suggest to take a look at https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/ and once you have a rough ideas ask here for advice.

kosmischemusik4y ago

This is pretty cool. Trying it out at our standup tomorrow. Btw, we're users of your Slack games :).

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sanketnOP4y ago

A lot of people are working remotely for the first time and it can lead to a feeling of isolation and having no social bond with the team.

There are 30 different icebreaker backgrounds, one for each day of the month. The scrum master puts up a new one everyday and everyone answers the question on it for some good old banter.

Would love to know what you folks think.

TechBro86154y ago

This looks like fun! Well as long as my boss doesn't force me to do it...

gus_massa4y ago

I was confused by the carrousel at the top and I though the backgrounds include the photos of the actors. But IIUC the backgrounds you give are in the second row.

What is the license? If I use one of this backgrounds in a talk, can I upload it to YouTube?

sanketnOP4y ago

Fair point.

Yes, please go ahead use it in the talk, upload on YouTube and use it wherever else you want :)

gus_massa4y ago

The page does not specify the license, so people will be afraid of using it.

You should read all the possible licenses to ensure that people can use it as intended, but can not use in unexpected ways.

For example sometimes people choose CC0, and then get angry when other people redistribute it without attribution.

I suggest to take a look at https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/ and once you have a rough ideas ask here for advice.

kosmischemusik4y ago

This is pretty cool. Trying it out at our standup tomorrow. Btw, we're users of your Slack games :).

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