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If you're looking for fun games to play with your friends remotely, there are plenty of ways to approach it. Although it may be difficult to plan a game night if you can't all be in the same spot at once, you can try a virtual game night using a video conferencing platform, such as Zoom. Here are 6 games you can play on Zoom for long-distance fun.

Playing games together from afar isn't as hard as it sounds. To plan a game night, make sure everyone has a reliable internet connection and a video-conferencing service like Zoom or Google Hangouts. Next, make sure you know the requirements of the game or platform. For some games, you'll want to start the game on your laptop and share your screen. For instance, to play Jackbox Games on Zoom, you'll have to have one person start the game, share their screen, and play that way.

Gameplay software and consoles are a great way to start playing games remotely over Zoom. Steam is a particularly good choice for remote play using its Steam Remote Play feature. If you use Steam Remote Play, only one person has to own a game copy in order to start, but you'll all need to make free accounts to play together. While Steam takes care of the game screen sharing, keeping Zoom open offers an easier way to socialize while you're playing.

There are several games that are easy to start playing with your friends on Zoom.

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1. Jackbox Games' Drawful 2

Through April 11, 2020, Jackbox Games is offering Drawful 2 is free if you download it with the Steam code here.The game is similar to Pictionary, except you and your friends will be challenged with ridiculous drawing prompts such as 'cotton candy hair' or a 'creepy tiger.'

2. Pictionary With Zoom's Whiteboard Feature

Zoom has a whiteboard sharing feature that is just perfect for playing Pictionary with your friends. You can play with the actual game or make up your own prompts. To use it, you'll need to make sure you have at least a 3.5.1 or higher of the Zoom desktop client for PC or 3.5.2 for Mac. If you are using your iPad, you'll need a 2.5.3 or higher.

To use Zoom's whiteboard, you'll want to click the share screen button located in your meeting toolbar, select the whiteboard, and click share. You should then see annotation tools that will let you use your mouse to draw as you would for Pictionary. You can take turns sharing the screen's whiteboard depending on who's turn it is, and you can put some in charge of keeping time for the person who is drawing.

3. Jackbox Games' Fibbage XL

Fibbage XL on Jackbox Games is a fun game to play with as many as eight players. The game involves bluffing and fooling your friends while you all try to figure out the correct answer to a question out of a pack of lies. To play remotely, share your computer screen on Zoom while one person streams their game, and let the fun begin.

Jackbox has a Steam code offer for this game right now at half the usual price.

4. Charades

One of the great things about playing charades is that you barely need any materials to get a game going, and you can play with as many people as you want. Just gather your friends together over Zoom, choose your teams, and consult with each other in individual chats to get the rounds going.

5. Zoom Bingo

Playing bingo over Zoom is an easy way to hold a game night. Have each of your friends print out the same style of bingo cards (make sure they aren't identical), and have one of you as a designated caller. One way to approach this is to write out the numbers on cards, shuffle them, and pull them one at a time.

There are also online bingo options that allow for multiplayers to join, such as Facebook Instant Games' bingo option in Messenger or GamePoint Bingo from Youda Games.

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6. Personalized Trivia Game

A fun, interactive idea is to use an application such as TriviaMaker.com to create your own trivia games. Anyone can create their own game once they have a TriviaMaker account, and once you've created a game you can share it and play with your friends while video chatting on Zoom. The best way to do this is to make the file downloadable, share screens, or use the Web presenter link for friends playing together.

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If you want to play a trivia game that doesn't require as much work, there are fun options like this Sporcle Trivia Bingo room. You can start a personal room and share your personalized link with friends to play together. Or, one person can share their screen to have everyone guess together. You can also find fun trivia games on Facebook and Snapchat which you can play with Zoom if you share your screen.

Bonus: Risk: Global Domination

You don't technically need Zoom to use this one since it's a free multiplayer option you can play remotely using Steam. Steam only shares your game screen, so keeping Zoom open at the same time offers a better experience for a full-on hangout.

Introducing a new type of event

With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, many Fundraisers are looking for alternatives for in-person events and ways to keep funds flowing for campaigns to continue their important work. There are two types of virtual events your campaign may want to run:

• Fundraiser (closed): Use Zoom or Google Hangouts for closed-door fundraisers to give your donor’s a private space to chat with the candidate directly about the state of the campaign.
• Town Hall (open): Use Zoom or Google Hangouts for open town hall type meetings to talk openly with volunteers, supporters, and possibly even reporters. Make sure your candidate is prepared to answer tough questions about the Coronavirus as well as potentially hard-hitting questions about the campaign from supporters of your opponent. Additional platforms like Maestro and Tele-Town Hall can also be used for larger phone-based events.

This guide is primarily written for the use of Zoom. If your campaign is set up on Google G Suite, Google Hangouts can be used in a similar fashion as Zoom’s Free and Pro versions, although there are fewer controls and video/audio quality are often not as strong.

What about Facebook or Instagram live for town halls?

If your candidate is press-trained, nimble on their feet, comfortable with technology, and has a strong Internet connection at home, then a Facebook or Instagram Live is a great option for an open town hall. For candidates that do not satisfy those four criteria, it is better to use a moderated format like a videoconference or to post short selfie videos addressing specific questions. Those are much less daunting formats, less technologically fraught, and safer for campaigns that need to stay on message.

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Good news! There are straightforward best practices to follow

1. 3-4 weeks ahead of time, find co-hosts for the event who are willing to send around the link to friends and neighbors who might be interested in attending a remote fundraiser. Give them a goal: for example, ask each person to invite 20 people. Make sure you find a time that works for all your co-hosts and the campaign to hold the event.
   Quick Tip: With their permission, list co-hosts on the donation page. A friendly name often helps encourage people to donate.
   
2. Once you have co-hosts, create a custom ActBlue or NGP link for the event as its signup page, including the date and time of the event in the page’s description. Don’t include the open Zoom link yet; this will help limit the number of people who didn’t pay entering the meeting.
   
3. Send out the invitations! Ask your co-hosts to send their invitations via email and follow up with hosts frequently about reaching out to their friends and neighbors about the event. The campaign should send the invitation to their own list of supporters. Be sure to have your candidate call donors who aren’t responsive to the emails!
   Quick Tip: Now is your chance to get face to face interaction with that donor who lives across the country and was always interested in attending a fundraiser. Don't limit by location when inviting guests, people can attend from anywhere!
   
4. Before the event, put together a visual aid or presentation. Videoconferencing does not have the same degree of natural interactions that in-person events do, so it will fall on the campaign to fill the gap. Here are some suggestions on what to include:
   1. Updates: An update on your district’s/state’s response to the coronavirus. Offer up helpful links and resources. (If you have a lot of out of district donors, a message about unity might be the way to handle this topic instead of specific updates.)
   2. Electoral Reminders: Why your race is still important this year. Is your race very competitive? Is your seat one that might flip a legislative chamber?
   3. Visuals: Use Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote to control the flow and present your screen. Use screenshots of recent local news articles, photos, and avoid text-only slides.
   4. Surrogates: Are there experts or community figures that would help the candidate create interest in the event and drive home your points? They may be easier to recruit and schedule now, including folks not in your region.
      

5. Send out the details for the Zoom conference one day in advance. This allows you to control distribution while creating a reminder. Optionally, include in the email a calendar invite with the login. You can use the function in Zoom to automatically send a reminder a day before but it often goes to spam or promotions tab. We recommend you use Mail Merge on gmail to automatically send a personalized email to everyone who is signed up. There is a greater chance they will open and read the email before the event, growing the number of people who are on the call!
   For people who already donated to the event, thank them in the email. For supporters who RSVP'd to the campaign but haven’t donated yet, this is a great time to send them the link again to the event page.

6. 30 minutes before the call, have the candidate and moderators sign on early to test the microphone and camera. Check it in the same spot the candidate plans to do the event. (Sometimes you don’t realize what’s behind you until the camera turns on!) Be aware of the lighting and make sure their computer is plugged in and ready.
   

7. Have a staffer ready as a moderator and “Co-Host” in Zoom to keep the conversation moving along. The staffer, if enabled as a Co-Host, can mute loud attendees and sift through any questions submitted via text. The staffer should read questions aloud to the candidate, so the candidate can focus just on answering rather than navigating the software.

8. Have a great event!

Sharing visual content is a great way to keep viewers engaged

How to open the event

• Give attendees a few minutes to get everything loaded -- for example, start at 3 minutes past the hour.
• Set an agenda at the top of the call to give everyone an idea of what to expect timewise and when they can ask the candidate questions

The update and pitch

• The candidates’ talking points or presentation should be at least 15 minutes, ideally with visuals -- a 10-minute stump speech is less effective in this format.
• Seed a few key supporters with questions to kick off the Q&A period - silence can be intimidating!

The ask

• Take advantage of that you know all the attendees are at their computer and able to fill out the checkout form.
• Attendees who donated prior to the event: recognize those folks, and get reliable supporters to say in the chat or verbally that they donated
• Attendees who did not donate prior to the event: The staffer should paste the ActBlue link in the chat and use the audio track to call the audience to action -- “Go there right now, I know you have your credit card ready”, and encourage attendees to say when they donated.
• Give donors the option to donate in other ways, sending a check or calling a staffer to give their information over the phone.

After the event

• Have language prepared so it’s easy to individually send emails to supporters after the event. Thank all the participants for joining and be sure to include any upcoming events or information provided during the presentation part of the event.
• If there was a link/article your candidate mentioned that people responded positively to, considering including it in the email. If there were folks on the call who said they might want to support the campaign further or may have friends who can support, make sure to send them the link to donate again so they have it readily available.
• Keep notes on donors' expressed interests and preferences