GameNight is a persistent multiplayer layer that sits above your games. The party stays alive all night — games come and go like tracks on a playlist, and the next one is already warm.
Drag it to Applications and open it. The lobby is right there — and the
first game downloads in the background while you're already playing.
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So why does every game switch mean browsing a library, re-inviting everyone, remapping controllers, sitting through intros and loading screens? GameNight deletes all of it. The whole evening becomes one continuous multiplayer session.
People, seats and names live above the games. Player 2 stays player 2 all night — across every game. No accounts, no lobbies, no setup.
While you play, the next game silently loads behind the current one. Skipping a game is as instant as skipping a track.
Match over? No dialog boxes. Everyone stands their avatar on Replay, Next game or Quit — consensus starts the transition.
Open the party from any game: it pauses for everyone, everywhere. Join, swap controllers, skip, browse — then drop straight back in.
What's-next is cover art: browse the shelf mid-game, tap Play next, and it's warming before the vote even opens.
Community-reviewed metadata for couch games — player counts, hardware needs, honest integration levels. Discovery you can trust.
Avatars stand on options — from a gamepad d-pad, a click, or (soon) a tap on your phone. When everyone agrees, the room transitions.
A small Rust daemon hosts the party and launches games on demand. Games speak a seven-message WebSocket protocol — open by design, with a conformance harness, SDKs for Godot and Rust, and a 60-line no-dependency example. If your favourite couch game isn't integrated yet, it can be — in under an hour.
GameNight includes a built-in Pixel Art Character Designer and Game Store. Players scan the on-screen QR code on their phones, create custom avatars, buy games, and share their libraries in one unified party session.