I’m broadly up for things removing faff from getting casual hangout games running with pals.

It does also have handy tools like drawing on a whiteboard or watching YouTube together.

They even let you play with folks across the desktop, web client, and mobile clients.

Playing Putt Party in Discord.

Now Discord want to open Activities up to all developers.

On Monday the 18th, they will releasethe Embedded App SDK.

Whether that will be attractive to developers, let alone financially worth it, remains to be seen.

The SDK’s page says details on monetisation are “coming soon”.