VBR Features

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VBR offers a growing range of features to create your own digital board games on your PC and test them with friends or just play them. Here are some key features.

  • Integrated game material
  • Import your own 3D models Import your own 3D models
  • Loading your own textures
  • Multiplayer via network and self-hosting system
  • Open License

Integrated game material

VBR has a small collection of game materials that keep cropping up in a variety of board game ideas. These include multi-sided dice, playing cards, figures and basic geometric elements that provide a good basis for starting a board game development.

Import your own 3D models

One of the most powerful features is the use of your own 3D elements. VBR follows a principle that allows you to combine properties and functions of elements with 3D models and textures. For example, a deck of cards can look like a fire-breathing dragon, or a rotating element can look like a roulette table.

3D data in OBJ format is supported, from which the normals can also be used to create smooth surface shapes for a modern graphical look for your board games. We use Blender here to edit models and adapt the data structure for the VBR.

Loading your own textures

Colorful or just functional. Textures are what bring life to the board game world. The appearance of the dice sides, card values ​​and the game boards themselves are all created from graphics that can be brought into the virtual space via the VBR options menus and tools.

PNG and JPG are supported. To make it easier to adapt your own graphics to the internal models, all UV maps of the 3D objects are available.

Of course, you still have to create these graphics yourself. We often recommend free programs like InkScape and Gimp.

Multiplayer via network and self-hosting system

Up to six players can enter a virtual room and pursue their hobby together. VBR relies on a self-responsible server hosting system, where one of the players hosts the game master server with his PC and all the others connect to him via the network.

In this way, resources can be saved and the environment protected, as no energy-hungry server systems need to be provided. The only requirement is private Internet access via a router with port forwarding set up.

Open License

We want to limit your creativity as little as possible and currently have a very open system for sharing your creations.

All games that you invent and create with the VBR belong to you. You can give them away or sell them as you wish. Of course, this only applies to material and graphics for which you own the corresponding rights and as long as you own an official VBR version.