Play social games with friends over Zoom
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Play social games with friends over Zoom
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Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#2I get a 404 whenever I try to click on a game
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#3You have werewolf! That's a really fun game.
Unfortunately- if I click on any of these links, I get the following message- Cannot GET /onu-werewolf/
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#4This is a really cool idea! My friends and I play games and watch movies through Zoom. We just screenshare one person's screen, and it usually works out.
I'm not sure if there's a way to create a platform to play any game through Zoom, but if you have a Google Form with game requests, I'm sure you can very quickly scale up your offerings with confidence.
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#5Brilliant! I've been looking for something like this. Did you build it OP, or find it somewhere?
Somewhat related, I built a simple Boggle-like word game to play with my family over screen share: https://wordgame.paulbutler.org/
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#6This is a really cool idea! My friends and I play games and watch movies through Zoom. We just screenshare one person's screen, and it usually works out. I'm not sure if there's a way to create a platform to play any game through Zoom, but if you have a Google Form with game requests, I'm sure you can very quickly scale up your offerings with confidence.
Are there any games that you've found work particularly well this way?
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#7This is a really cool idea! My friends and I play games and watch movies through Zoom. We just screenshare one person's screen, and it usually works out. I'm not sure if there's a way to create a platform to play any game through Zoom, but if you have a Google Form with game requests, I'm sure you can very quickly scale up your offerings with confidence.
Are there any games that you've found work particularly well this way?
We played https://skribbl.io which was really fun!
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#8This is a really cool idea! My friends and I play games and watch movies through Zoom. We just screenshare one person's screen, and it usually works out. I'm not sure if there's a way to create a platform to play any game through Zoom, but if you have a Google Form with game requests, I'm sure you can very quickly scale up your offerings with confidence.
Are there any games that you've found work particularly well this way?
All of the jackbox games should work. My friends and I played Drawful 2 (which is free right now [0]) over Zoom and it worked great.
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#9This is a really cool idea! My friends and I play games and watch movies through Zoom. We just screenshare one person's screen, and it usually works out. I'm not sure if there's a way to create a platform to play any game through Zoom, but if you have a Google Form with game requests, I'm sure you can very quickly scale up your offerings with confidence.
Are there any games that you've found work particularly well this way?
Check out this online implementation of Codenames I made with a friend:
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#10Why is there no preview of what we're signing up for? I literally have to get 4 people to join just to see what we're dealing with.