Whiteboards appear once in every piece of written Big Walk material, in the same place each time: the “Tools and Toys” line of the feature list, written as “whiteboards (?)”. House House put the question mark there themselves, immediately before “cowbells (??)” and “a big golden head (???)”.
The written record stops there. The picture record does not — one of the eight official June 2026 screenshots shows a whiteboard in use, and it answers the obvious question.
What the screenshot shows
A blue character stands in a red-walled room, holding a white board above its head with both arms, turned toward another character a few metres away. There is a mark drawn on the board. A second character on the right is carrying a board of its own. On the wall behind them is a pinboard with two sheets pinned to it.
Three things follow from that image, none of which appear in any text House House have published:
It is held up and shown, not placed. The pose is deliberate — arms raised, board angled at the other player. That puts the whiteboard in the same category as pointing and waving rather than in the category of equipment you drop somewhere.
More than one player can carry one at a time. Two characters in frame, two boards.
Something gets drawn on it. The board has a mark on it, and the pinboard on the wall holds separate sheets with different marks on each.
The entire written record
Everything House House have written about whiteboards, in full:
- They are in the game.
- They are listed among the “tools and toys” you use to stay in contact while spread out across the world.
- They warrant one question mark.
Not published: how you draw, what you draw with, whether the drawing persists after you put the board down, whether other players can draw on the same board, and whether it works at the distances where voice and text chat give out.
That last one is the interesting question. Big Walk’s text chat is unreadable at range and blocked by soundproof glass — the same rules as voice. A physical board held up in the air would not obviously obey those rules, which would make it the one communication tool that beats the geometry. Whether it actually does is unknown, and this page does not claim it does.