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This 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 n

This 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.

paulgb 7y ago
Are there any games that you've found work particularly well this way?
- yingw787 7y ago
  We played https://skribbl.io https://skribbl.io which was really fun!
- tyrust 7y ago
  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. [0] https://www.jackboxgames.com/ https://www.jackboxgames.com/
- polishdude20 7y ago
  Check out this online implementation of Codenames I made with a friend: http://gamecraft.live/ http://gamecraft.live/
ehsankia 7y ago
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 <video> 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.
- mikepurvis 7y ago
  There's a similar (and similarly-named) syncing plugin for Disney Plus: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disney-plus-party/pidpgkcioikhdjahlehighfgmaopdbkk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disney-plus-party/... I can understand wanting to avoid bad press given the current state of things, but even still I'm shocked that Netflix and especially Disney haven't hit these with C&Ds for trademark use given the obvious potential for confusion.
  - ehsankia 7y ago
    Netflix Party at least has existed for years. I used it at least 4 years ago if not longer. What surprises me is that none of these sites have made a built-in version of this feature.
    - mikepurvis 7y ago
      Well, and that's exactly the source of the confusion. I was sent a "Netflix Party" link recently and sure enough, it was a regular Netflix.com URL that loaded and played the movie we were planning to watch. I had no idea until I was told that I needed to switch to Chrome and install a browser extension before it would actually do the synchronized play. If it was "Watch Together" or something, it would immediately clue me in that there was something else I was going to need to install or sign up for in order to make it work. Regarding discoverability, can't Chrome extensions register themselves to handle custom schemas? If Netflix Party gave you a party://netflix/movie-id/session-id URL, then it would fail to resolve on a machine without the plugin installed, while still not requiring any centralized infrastructure.
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scoopdewoop 7y ago
https://parsecgaming.com/ https://parsecgaming.com/ is made to play local-multiplayer games remotely. It is like screensharing, but it forwards controller inputs as well at super low latency.

paulgb 7y ago

Are there any games that you've found work particularly well this way?

yingw787 7y ago
We played https://skribbl.io https://skribbl.io which was really fun!
tyrust 7y ago
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. [0] https://www.jackboxgames.com/ https://www.jackboxgames.com/
polishdude20 7y ago
Check out this online implementation of Codenames I made with a friend: http://gamecraft.live/ http://gamecraft.live/

ehsankia 7y ago

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 <video> 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.

mikepurvis 7y ago
There's a similar (and similarly-named) syncing plugin for Disney Plus: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disney-plus-party/pidpgkcioikhdjahlehighfgmaopdbkk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disney-plus-party/... I can understand wanting to avoid bad press given the current state of things, but even still I'm shocked that Netflix and especially Disney haven't hit these with C&Ds for trademark use given the obvious potential for confusion.
- ehsankia 7y ago
  Netflix Party at least has existed for years. I used it at least 4 years ago if not longer. What surprises me is that none of these sites have made a built-in version of this feature.
  - mikepurvis 7y ago
    Well, and that's exactly the source of the confusion. I was sent a "Netflix Party" link recently and sure enough, it was a regular Netflix.com URL that loaded and played the movie we were planning to watch. I had no idea until I was told that I needed to switch to Chrome and install a browser extension before it would actually do the synchronized play. If it was "Watch Together" or something, it would immediately clue me in that there was something else I was going to need to install or sign up for in order to make it work. Regarding discoverability, can't Chrome extensions register themselves to handle custom schemas? If Netflix Party gave you a party://netflix/movie-id/session-id URL, then it would fail to resolve on a machine without the plugin installed, while still not requiring any centralized infrastructure.
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scoopdewoop 7y ago

https://parsecgaming.com/ https://parsecgaming.com/ is made to play local-multiplayer games remotely. It is like screensharing, but it forwards controller inputs as well at super low latency.