Party games on your TV: the big screen as a game board
An evening where everyone stares at their own phone is not an evening. It is the main complaint made about multiplayer mobile games, and it is deserved: when everyone watches their own screen, nobody watches anybody. The big screen solves this in one move — it gives the room a centre again.
Why a shared screen changes everything
In a theatre everyone faces the same way, and that is why people laugh together rather than separately. A game board shown on the television does exactly the same thing: reactions become collective, you see the other faces at the moment the answer lands, and the silence before a result finally carries weight. The phone goes back to being what it should be — a controller, not a screen.
How to set it up in thirty seconds
The simplest way to add the shared screen is to open klapo.app/tv in the television’s browser. A laptop on HDMI or a tablet also works. This page only displays the show: every player still plays in the mobile app.
And if you have no television
The big screen is a comfort, not a condition. Without a TV, the same game runs entirely in the Klapo mobile apps, just more intimately. Every player still needs the app on their phone.
Set up the room, not just the screen
The detail that matters most is not technical: it is the seating. Everyone should see the screen without craning their neck, and above all see each other — otherwise the game replaces the conversation instead of feeding it. Dim the lights, put the TV at eye level, keep the table in the middle. That arrangement is what turns a round into a memory.
Klapo is built for this: the scene and votes appear on the shared screen while everyone answers in the mobile app. Without a TV, the apps carry the whole game.
Every player joins from the Klapo mobile app. The TV is optional.