Chaption
A random chatter lands in the meme — chat writes the captions
Category: Party · Players: free-for-all · Status: Beta
Chaption is in beta — details may change.
Every round puts somebody from chat inside a meme. Their avatar, their name, no way to volunteer and no way out — the draw is random and lurkers are eligible. Then the whole room writes the captions, and one judge reads them out and crowns a winner.
It’s the party-game format you already know from the table: a picture everyone answers, and one person deciding what’s funniest. The difference is the picture is about someone in the room.
A round
A meme comes up and the engine draws a chatter at random for each spot in it. Templates with two roles cast two people. Chatters with an avatar are preferred — a blank silhouette in the frame is a wasted slot — and anyone who has joined is eligible whether or not they’ve said a word.
Most memes have one caption box, and then you just type — no number, no command, your line is the caption.
A meme with several boxes needs to know which one you mean, so those take a number:
!1 the game we voted for
A three-box meme takes three messages; they stack into one entry under your name. You don’t have to fill them all — a one-liner on a single box can still win. Send a box again to fix a typo, and the last version is the one judged.
Nothing appears on stage while the window is open. That’s deliberate: a live feed of entries turns “everyone writes” into “everyone copies the best one already up there.”
Captions close and every entry gets a number. Read a few out, then click the one you want — that’s you by default.
Chat works too, and it’s the only route for a cast judge:
!pick 7 Set Who picks the winner to the chatter in the
meme and one draw decides both who’s in the picture and who chooses — you can
still pick if they go quiet.
Scoring
Winning a meme is one point. Most points at the end takes the session. A round nobody picks simply has no winner; it doesn’t stall the game, and you can move on whenever you like.
Setup
Memes — how many the session plays, 1 to 10. The bank holds 104 templates, and your room won’t be dealt one it has seen recently.
Seconds to write — 0 by default, meaning you close the writing window by
hand when the room’s ready. Set a number to close it automatically instead.
Who picks the winner — you, or the chatter in the meme.
Why one judge
A room of five hundred can’t read three hundred entries, so a chat-wide vote needs a shortlist, and a shortlist throws away most of what the room wrote. One person reading entries aloud has none of that problem — and the reading is the funniest part of the game, which is the thing a stream is already good at.
Chat commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
!join | Join the round. Writing a caption joins you anyway. |
<caption> | On a one-box meme, just type it. |
!1 <caption> | Fill caption box 1 — needed only when the meme has several. |
!pick <number> | Judge only — crowns that entry. |