I turned Nemesis into a live animated board game experience
Hey everyone!
I’ve been working on a hobby project called TableTop-Beamer, a projection mapping software for board games that lets you turn your table into an animated game board.
You define rooms/areas with custom polygons, assign videos/GIFs/animations to them, and then trigger effects live during gameplay from your phone.
So a room can start burning, alarms can flash, power can fail, electrical sparks can flash, or entire sections of the map can come alive like you define and control it.
I originally built it for the board games Nemesis and Nemesis: Lockdown, but the system itself is generic, basically any game with rooms, zones, or defined areas can work with it.
A few things it currently supports:
- Arbitrary room/area mapping with polygons
- Custom MP4 and GIF animations
- Mobile phone control during the game
- On-board projection mapping
- Server-Side rendering, so you can connect you beamer with a rasberry pi or similar
This is my first hobby project where I intentionally tried to build almost everything using AI-assisted development with Claude Code and Open Code.
I still focused heavily on code quality, architecture, and maintainability instead of just adding features on top of another.
I’d love feedback, ideas, or people willing to try it out.