I created a working app recently for Classic Mafia (Werewolf is a variant of that) card shuffle - for whoever is interested - https://mafia.brolia.com
Play social games with friends over Zoom
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Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#12Why 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.
I recognize all of the games, I have played their IRL/tabletop versions but I would also like to see a video or a demo of how this works as well
Also have we hugged it to death because Codenames is 404-ing? https://netgames.io/codenames/
edit: ok when I registered my name I stopped getting the 404, not sure if that was intentional or just timing
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#13Seems like on desktop the links on the homepage are broken but they work from the hamburger menu. Interestingly, the homepage links work on mobile.
Re: Play social games with friends over Zoom
#14Why 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.
I recognize all of the games, I have played their IRL/tabletop versions but I would also like to see a video or a demo of how this works as well Also have we hugged it to death because Codenames is 404-ing? https://netgames.io/codenames/ edit: ok when I registered my name I stopped getting the 404, not sure if that was intentional or just timing
No, the frontpage links are broken, it's supposed to be https://netgames.io/games/codenames/
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#15Hangouts Video Chat removed the feature at some point, but it used to have games you could play in video calls. Two in particular my college buddies and I thoroughly enjoyed playing - Warlight (a rebranded Risk) and Poker.
I was actually thinking the other day it'd be great if any of the chat apps had that now that the whole world is connecting via video chat
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#16This 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.
There are plenty of sites and tools for watching for watching together
Netflix Party (browser extension): Syncs netflix
SyncLounge (webapp): Syncs plex
twoseven.xyz: Create a room and play Youtube, Netflix, Prime Videos, Hulu, or really any on any website with the extension
Tuturu.tv / Caracal.club: Gives you a VM in the cloud where you can play any video and watch together. Good when you have only a single netflix/hbo account or whatever. You're guaranteed to have a single view and can share control.
SyncPlay: An plugin for VLC/MPC that syncs local files
There are many more, andchill.tv for Youtube, Kast, and so on. Zoom is probably the last solution i'd use for this.
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#17Thank you China!
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#18There are many great online free games. I'd like to see someone compile a big list of all of the great free games you can play right in your browser:
Codenames: https://www.horsepaste.com/
Secret Hitler: http://secrethitler.io/
Plenty of other board games in the browser:
There are also lots of io games, I've been playing a lot of curvytron.com
There's also a pile of Jackbox games, where only the host needs to buy the game and participant can play from their phone using jackbox.tv and the code.
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#19Just to add another suggestion, Tabletop Simulator on Steam is pretty great and on sale now [1]. My friends and I used it to play our first online game of Catan on Saturday night, we used Discord for voice chat. We all have the boxed version but obviously we can't get together...
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...
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#20Very different from the type they have, but you can also play pictionary with the whiteboard feature.
Anybody have examples of games you can play with in combination with Zoom and a Google Presentation?