Does anyone here like playing Jackbox games? If you aren't familiar, they're a group of party games that run on a computer (though I think they also have versions that run on mobile devices):

https://www.jackboxgames.com

These games are for groups of people; typically, someone would run the game on a laptop or tablet, and it gives a game code, which people would use to join the game on their own device (computer, phone, tablet, etc.) - basically, the game is hosted online by their services in order for this to work.

I think one cool thing is that in addition to being in person, Jackbox also works with groups of people online. I've played Jackbox games on Zoom video conferences with someone sharing their screen to show the Jackbox game, with the other people joining wherever they are.

Maybe it could be fun to have some Jackbox game sessions online with some of us BBS users? I know a lot of us are scattered across the world in different time zones though..

I think Zoom works well, but you need to have a Zoom license for meetings to run more than 30 minutes, and I don't have a Zoom license. Maybe there's another option for online video meetings that would work easily?

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Nightfox wrote to All <=-

Does anyone here like playing Jackbox games? If you aren't familiar, they're a group of party games that run on a computer (though I think
they also have versions that run on mobile devices):

Is that the ones that made "You Don't Know Jack?" We used to play
that over at my brother's house... was a lot of fun...

https://www.jackboxgames.com

These games are for groups of people; typically, someone would run the game on a laptop or tablet, and it gives a game code, which people
would use to join the game on their own device (computer, phone,
tablet, etc.) - basically, the game is hosted online by their services
in order for this to work.

That's a cool idea! Will have to check it out!


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Re: Jackbox games
By: Nightfox to All on Mon May 19 2025 01:43 pm

https://www.jackboxgames.com

These games are for groups of people; typically, someone would run the game on a laptop or tablet, and it gives a game code, which people would use to join the game on their own device (computer, phone, tablet, etc.) - basically, the game is hosted online by their services in order for this to work.

I suspect I would not be much into it, really.

I did organize a virtual birthday party by self-hosting a board game on my server which worked pretty much like it. The first player would log into the server and create a game, then send a link to the other players. We had a blast.

Service still online at https://terraforming.operationalsecurity.es


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Re: Re: Jackbox games
By: jimmylogan to Nightfox on Mon May 19 2025 03:30 pm

Does anyone here like playing Jackbox games? If you aren't familiar,
they're a group of party games that run on a computer (though I think
they also have versions that run on mobile devices):

Is that the ones that made "You Don't Know Jack?" We used to play that over at my brother's house... was a lot of fun...

Yes, I'm pretty sure it is.

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