OFFICE RULES

Hosted game nights for teams that don't share a room.

Virtual team building for teams that don't share a room. Your team gets a code by email and opens a browser tab. We run the night on the video call you already use. Nothing to install, no accounts, no new vendor for IT to approve.

$600 for 1.5 hours$850 for 2.5 hours

One flat fee for up to 12 people. Anywhere in Australia or New Zealand.

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How an online night runs

Four steps, and three of them are things your team already knows how to do.

  1. When you book

    You send us the guest list

    Work email addresses, pasted in however they come out of your directory. Nothing else — no profiles to set up, no seats to provision.

  2. On the day

    Everyone gets a six-digit code

    By email, to the address you gave us. No password to choose, no account to create, nothing to download or approve.

  3. Five minutes before

    Your team opens a browser tab

    They pick a nickname and a colour and land in the lobby. Your Teams, Zoom or Meet call runs alongside it in the usual window.

  4. For the next 1.5 hours

    The host runs the night

    Games taught, rounds started, scores settled, the quiet person drawn in. Then the attendee data is purged and everyone goes back to their evening.

The bit your IT team will ask about

Every answer below is "no" or "nothing", which is the point. This is a web page your staff open once, not a system anyone has to adopt.

  • Nothing to install

    No app, no extension, no desktop client, no app store request. A browser tab on whatever they already have in front of them.

  • No accounts, no passwords

    A six-digit code, emailed to the work address you supplied, valid for that session. Nobody creates a profile and nobody chooses a password they will reuse.

  • No new vendor to approve

    You bring your own call. We don't sit in the middle of your video, we don't need a tenant, and we don't ask for anything to be added to an allow-list.

  • Teams, Zoom or Meet

    It genuinely doesn't matter which. The game layer runs beside the call rather than inside it, so your existing meeting policy is the meeting policy.

  • Attendee data is purged

    Names and addresses exist for the length of the session and are deleted when it ends. Nothing retained, nothing sold, and no marketing to your team afterwards.

  • One invoice, 14-day terms

    ABN 97 267 399 426, happy to quote against a PO. No per-seat licence, no subscription, nothing that renews on its own.

Somebody else has to sign this off?

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Same host, same hours, no travel.

Which is why an online night costs less than the same night in your office and still buys more seats per dollar. Nobody drives anywhere, nothing gets loaded into a car, and the fee is flat either way.

Twelve to a session, because
past a dozen the gallery stops
showing everyone's face.
Thirteen is a second session.

12 on the call

= 1 session of 12

Shaded zone = covered by the flat fee. The 13th person needs a second session.

How long

Estimate

Online · 1.5 hrs · anywhere in Australia

Session, up to 12
$600
Host, games, the link
Included

Your session, all up

$600

= $50 a head · one flat fee

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Move it once, free, up to ten days out. Nobody gets charged for a flu that went through the floor.

In-office nights and the games drop-off are priced on the home page — all prices, alongside these.

Why it stops at twelve

It's a facilitation limit, not a technical one. The software would happily seat thirty. But past about a dozen, the gallery stops showing everyone's face at a size you can read — and reading the room is most of what you're paying a host for. The person who has gone quiet is the one the night is for.

A bigger team is two sessions on the same evening, back to back, rather than one session where half the room is a name in a grey rectangle. Thirty people is three sessions and one long Friday, and we would rather say that than sell you a webinar.

Distributed, and in four timezones

One Friday evening holds an Auckland slot, a Melbourne slot and a Perth slot without anybody logging on at 6am. If you're booking several sessions rather than one, that's usually the shape it takes — and it's the same host, so the nights are actually comparable.

Playing from anywhere

A laptop is enough
No second screen, no phone in the other hand. Some games play better with a phone as your private hand of cards, but nothing needs one.
Nothing reading-heavy
Long text on a shared screen is where a remote night loses the room. Tell us if anyone would rather not read aloud and we'll pick around it.
Timers are optional
Ask and they come off. A countdown is a good pressure device and a bad one, depending entirely on who is playing.
Colour-blind-safe by default
Players pick a colour and a nickname, and nothing in a game depends on telling two of them apart at a glance.

Questions about the online night

How can you play board games online?

We've run a lot of remote game sessions, and that experience is mostly knowing which games survive the trip and which don't. The ones we use online are built for it — the board lives in a browser tab everyone can see, and the talking happens on your call, which is where the night actually is.

Does it work with Teams or Zoom?

Yes. You run the call on whatever your company already uses — Teams, Zoom, Meet, it genuinely doesn't matter. We provide the game layer in a browser alongside it.

What does everyone need to install?

Nothing. Your team gets a code by email and opens a browser tab. No accounts, no passwords, no app store, no "please create a profile".

What happens to our staff's data?

It's purged after every event. Names exist for the length of the session and are deleted when it ends. Nothing retained, nothing sold, no marketing to your team afterwards.

How many people can join one call?

Twelve. That's a facilitation limit, not a technical one — past a dozen the gallery stops showing everyone's face, and reading the room is most of what you're paying for. For bigger teams we'd recommend breaking it into multiple sessions, possibly on the same evening.

Do you cater for accessibility needs?

Tell us what you need and we'll pick the games to suit. Colour-blind-safe components, no-timer variants and games that don't rely on fast clicking are all normal requests, not special ones. Nobody has to have their camera or their mic on to take part, and the game tab zooms like any other web page. If someone on your team uses a screen reader, say so when you book — we'll go through which games work with you before you commit to a date.

Can people play on a phone?

They can, and some games play better that way — phone in hand, laptop for faces. Nothing needs a second screen.

Invoicing, group sizes, rescheduling and the rest are answered on the home page — the general questions.

Enquire about an online session

Your name, your company, a work email and a rough headcount. Add a date if you have one. You'll hear back today, or first thing tomorrow.

hello@officerules.com.au 0416 426 579

Weekdays, 9am to 5pm.

Not ready to book?

Take the one-pager — formats, prices, insurance and how the data is handled — and forward it to whoever signs off.

Download the one-pager (PDF)

No obligation, and no mailing list. Your email is used to reply to you, and that’s the end of it.

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