Exploding Kittens' Elan Lee and Temple Gates' Theresa Duringer talk about the need for "air gapped" board games people can play over video chats.
There are programs that replicate that, but then you’re back in video game world. They take away part of that connection. Those two boards aren’t connected to each other except via the human mechanism, the human is the data transfer mechanism between those two machines. That is what facilitates the game.