THIRD WAVE / GARY'S PARTY LINE [2026]

Gary's Party Line is a collaborative/competitive IRL team party game for 2-50 people on a shared screen. Hard Work Party built it for Third Wave, the phones-as-controllers platform our chief, Noah Norman, co-founded to make places playable.

The game is a showcase for the most important things at the heart of Third Wave - big-group IRL gaming mechanics and an exploration of accessible, immediate, visceral phone interactions made possible by Third Wave's SDK.

In the game you draw on your phone to draw onscreen, you use your phone like a flashlight to select and deploy offensive tricks against the other team, you hold the phone like a wheel and drive a go-kart, you bump the phone to drop words onto a tilting platform held by your teammate, you tumble the phone to twist the body of an onscreen character, each interaction in service of hilarious collaborative/competitive play with emergent team dynamics.

At the end of the match, every player takes away personalized images and videos tailored for sharing, featuring clips from the match, awards and achievements (some glorious, some dubious), and high scores across all locations.

Weekly online playtests feed the gameplay and keep the mechanics crisp - check our YouTube for live streams.

THIRD WAVE: GARY'S PARTY LINE
Music by Braille
TD GI Component by Prismatic Visuals
Public domain images from Wikimedia Commons
Type: Big Shoulders, Anton, SUSE, IBM Plex, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Lexend (SIL Open Font License 1.1); Noto Emoji (Apache License 2.0)
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