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I’ve done a few Jackbox Party Pack games sessions over last year’s lockdown, they are good fun and there’s normally at least one game per pack that everyone can

I’ve done a few Jackbox Party Pack games sessions over last year’s lockdown, they are good fun and there’s normally at least one game per pack that everyone can be good at, without necessarily being the funniest or most creative. It works quite well over screen share due to being time based rounds with not a huge reliance on reaction times / audio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackbox_Party_Pack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackbox_Party_Pack

Buttons840 6y ago
Jackbox seems alone in this niche, and their style is a bit crude for some. I think some of my family or co-workers would be offended by some of their games.
pridkett 6y ago
This is what I’ve done with my team of about 20 people about once every six weeks. I put them on my iPad and then share that audio and video via a USB cable and QuickTime recorder to the team. It works well enough - particularly if you have family safe mode, but tends to struggle for engagement beyond 8 people (also limits games at that size). We’ve also created a few team specific decks for Cards Against Humanity and merged them with Cards Against Containers and Cards Against DevOps. We then use Pyx-Reloaded on a VPS to play the game. Modulo the bugs in Pyx-Reloaded it’s fun, but suffers problems when people drop out. Skrbbl has been good - we have to use personal devices to play it (same with JackBox) and it quickly becomes apparent who has PiHole on their home network and who does not.