What was the first instance of a friendslop game? Was it REPO? Human: Fall Flat? Or perhaps it was the first time a group of people tried to guess what someone was saying in what we would now call a game of charades? The name friendslop may be a recent development, but at its core messing around with a group of friends has been one of the oldest ways to socialise. Take Jackbox Games for example.
“We’re kind of friendslop in a way,” CEO of Jackbox Games, Mike Bilder, tells our Ted Litchfield in a recent interview. With senior software engineer Michael Siciliano adding: “We’ve just been around so much longer than the term that it feels strange to retroactively [claim it].”
Now, I don’t think Jackbox Games goes as far back as the 16th-century origins of charades, but it has been around for a while after its rebrand in 2013, with games like Fibbage and Lie Swatter being over a decade old.
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