Accessibility Specialist. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
gather.town/ - it is a virtual office webapp and it is such a fun way to work in a remote team.
You have a pixel art office that you walk around and objects you can interact with.
You have rooms and spaces that when you enter them you can interact with other people in that space and you automatically get connected via a video call within the application.
You can even decorate your desk, although it can lead to "escalation" as happened with us....
Things escalated quickly!
I "came into the office" yesterday and people had started decorating their desks!
I am a competitive so and so, I had to make my desk awesome and create a custom desktop background with the daily.dev logo on!
I woke up this morning and the design team fired back with an amazing zen garden space!
But as I said, I am competitive so....
I hate to think what I will wake up to tomorrow 🤣
If you work in a remote team, it is a great way to get that "office feeling" while working remotely!
Accessibility Specialist. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
To be fair, it took maybe 15 minutes to design my desk and maybe 30 minutes to create a custom overlay from an image.
I can imagine that you could definitely spend hours on building a space, but overall it is a really good way of running a remote team and quite efficient with the jumping into meetings by simply "walking" a few steps rather than finding email invites, checking your camera settings etc!
Hope you have fun with it and let me know if you end up using it for anything (fun or professional!)
Accessibility Specialist. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Accessibility Specialist. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Accessibility Specialist. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Accessibility Specialist. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
gather.town/ - it is a virtual office webapp and it is such a fun way to work in a remote team.
You have a pixel art office that you walk around and objects you can interact with.
You have rooms and spaces that when you enter them you can interact with other people in that space and you automatically get connected via a video call within the application.
You can even decorate your desk, although it can lead to "escalation" as happened with us....
Things escalated quickly!
I "came into the office" yesterday and people had started decorating their desks!
I am a competitive so and so, I had to make my desk awesome and create a custom desktop background with the daily.dev logo on!
I woke up this morning and the design team fired back with an amazing zen garden space!
But as I said, I am competitive so....
I hate to think what I will wake up to tomorrow 🤣
If you work in a remote team, it is a great way to get that "office feeling" while working remotely!
Oh god, that looks like the perfect way to kill productivity in just the right ways. I might toy with that a bit!
Haha, true!
To be fair, it took maybe 15 minutes to design my desk and maybe 30 minutes to create a custom overlay from an image.
I can imagine that you could definitely spend hours on building a space, but overall it is a really good way of running a remote team and quite efficient with the jumping into meetings by simply "walking" a few steps rather than finding email invites, checking your camera settings etc!
Hope you have fun with it and let me know if you end up using it for anything (fun or professional!)
Lol reminds me a little bit of ... Microsoft Bob! but I expect it's better than that ;)
OK so now I have to go look up Microsoft Bob! 🤣
There you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
Is it a carbon copy/spitting image, or not?
Brilliant! It is funny how things come full circle isn't it!
That's what I thought haha
Lol, this is epic!
Oh wow, this looks like the Pokemon Emerald game I used to play long ago on the Nintendo Gameboy Advance! I spent countless hours on it. 😆
That was how I described it to my fiancé, then she said she never played Pokemon...so it was a terrible explanation 🤣
That's gorgeous!
I love the art style they picked for the components!