Can someone explain to me like I'm 5 on how this works? Thank you!
I have all the video game systems.
The game is run on a host device and that device displays the overall game. Think of it as the board in a board game. Everyone then uses a device with a browser (usually a phone) to access the game and enter their drawings/inputs/etc.You do not have to be local, you access via the Jackbox website. Think of the phones as your hand of cards in a board game that you don't want others to see.
There are a variety of games, but a common type is for all the users to answer a prompt. The answers then get displayed on the host device and the players vote on their favorite answers (kind of like Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity). Most votes wins. Usually funny prompts + funny answers = laughs. There are some more in-depth games though.
So typically everyone is just in the same room and the host device connected to a TV everyone sees and the players can enter their answers on their phones secretly.
What we're doing is having one person be the host, share the screen via a conferencing software, and everyone joins the conference via audio/video to hang out on a laptop/tablet but they still play the game from their phones.
It works well on PC because there are a lot of conferencing software options (Zoom, Skype, Discord, Hangouts) that you can share the screen of the host but as some have pointed out you can stream from a console to Twitch, etc.
