Tsekouras working on his newly popular games website netgames.io at his home in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. — Luke Tsekouras/Handout/Reuters
OAKLAND, California: Fans of popular group card games including Codenames, Spyfall and Cards Against Humanity have turned to playing unofficial online versions during video conferences with friends, as coronavirus restrictions prevent them from meeting up in person.
Providing the entertainment for the home-bound are software developers such as Jackson Owens who maintain free copycats of the games. Their obscure websites exploded in usage last month when social distancing measures locked Europeans and Americans at home and forced them to take dinner parties and happy hours online.
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Tsekouras working on his newly popular games website netgames.io at his home in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. — Luke Tsekouras/Handout/Reuters
Software developer Haukur Rosinkranz, who operates the gaming website Kosmi with built-in video conferencing functionality, at his home in Berlin, Germany. — Haukur Rosinkranz/Handout/Reuters
A screengrab provided by Owens shows a game of Codenames in action on his website Horsepaste.com, which saw an increase in users last month. — Jackson Owens/Handout via Reuters
Adam Marciniak, a college mechanical engineering instructor, poses at his home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, working on his newly launch Codenames team-based card games website Gamecraft.live. — Adam Marciniak/Handout via Reuters
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