Heads pop up when I arrive, but within a few minutes everyone is back to typing away at their keyboards. You could mistake the Jackbox offices for pretty much any office block in the country: a semi-open floor plan of desks and computers where people are quietly and diligently typing away. All of them encourage heated rivalries with your friends. Some games make you a know-it-all some games make you a comedian some games make you a liar. It’s hard to summarize your average Jackbox Party Pack game-there are 25 and counting-but the basics are roughly the same: an eclectic mix of trivia and wordplay that implicitly nudges the player to be as crass and clever as possible.
That’s the annual task for the team at Jackbox Games, a company whose annual Party Pack-downloadable on computers, video-game consoles, smart TVs, and anywhere else they can make it work-has become the definitive party game of this generation. And imagine that your intended audience is, uh, everybody in the world, probably several beers deep.
So imagine coming up with not one but five new party games every year. Even decades-old standbys like Charades and Pictionary and Trivial Pursuit get played out of tradition or duty-and not because they’re, you know, fun. Nothing kills a good time like thumbing through a rulebook to figure out what happens when you roll two sixes, or when your drunk uncle and his new wife get into a messy fight over whether her drawing looks more like a battery or an eggplant.
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