Yag

Yag (Yet Another Gameboard) is a 3D virtual tabletop for playing games online with friends. Designed initially for role-playing games, it can also support any game that uses maps, pawns and dice, including wargames.

Create maps and scenes

Yag can procedurally generate dungeons and voxel terrain in a few clicks, then lets you edit them with standard tools. You can also import pictures and add square or hexagonal grids. Its visual options include 3D dynamic lights, clouds, fog and realistic atmosphere, with parameters for shaping different scene ambiences.

Manage what players see

You can hide content in several ways: make selected pawns invisible, hide all content from players, or use pitch-black maps and real-time lights such as torches and fire. A fog of war has adjustable resolution and opacity, letting players discover the map as they play. A camera system lets you teleport yourself or send players to different parts of a map.

Pawns and game tools

Yag includes thousands of animated pawns spanning prehistoric, antiquity, medieval, medieval fantasy, medieval Asian, pirate, western, modern, post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk, steampunk, science-fiction and toon settings. Dice are fully customizable, and the game includes simple character sheets. Both use LUA scripting, which advanced users can rewrite or use to automate them.

You can also apply color filters and post-processing effects to scenes, including toon shading, inking, outlining, painting and blur. An embedded web server provides an HTTP REST API for controlling some aspects of Yag from a browser, phone or tablet.

Help and content

Yag provides tooltips, in-game documentation and real-time help, along with PDF files and tutorial videos. Advanced users can consult documentation for the LUA and HTTP REST APIs. Its content is managed through DLCs, which are and will remain free.