Chatvas
One viewer draws it on their phone. Chat races to name it.
Category: Party · Players: free-for-all · Status: Beta
Chatvas is in beta — details may change.
Draw-and-guess with the pen handed to chat. Each round, viewers put a hand up on your companion page and the game picks one of them. They get a word only they can see and draw it with a finger; the strokes land on your stage as they happen, and everyone else races to name it in the comments.
The word is never in anything the broadcast renders — not masked, absent. It exists in exactly one place: the reply to the tap that took the pen. That’s what makes the game possible on a public stream, where the alternative is showing the answer to the room you’re asking to guess it.
A round
The stage shows the address — livehub.gg/w/@streamer, the streamer’s handle,
one link for the whole room. Viewers open it and tap I’ll draw. No login,
no app.
That puts them in the draw; it doesn’t hand them anything. Hands gather for about twenty seconds and then the game picks one. Being fastest buys nothing, which is the point — a race rewards whoever happened to be holding their phone, and everyone else stops bothering after the first round.
Picking favours whoever has drawn fewest times this session, and rolls at random inside that band. So the pen goes right round your regulars before anyone gets a second turn, and a newcomer who puts a hand up at round six goes straight to the front — their count is zero.
If nobody puts a hand up, the address stays on screen and the clock stops rather than burning the word; the next hand starts the round immediately. Skip it from your host controls if the room has moved on.
Eight colours, four nib sizes, an eraser and an undo. Nothing else — the constraint is the point, and a phone drawing has about ninety seconds to make itself understood.
Anyone types the word in the comments. No command and no prefix — any
message during the round is a guess, because asking a racing room to type !guess is asking them to lose. Case and punctuation are ignored.
The round ends when the clock runs out, when the host calls it, or when the artist gives up. The word goes up on the canvas next to what it actually looked like, and the pen frees up again.
Scoring
The first correct guess pays most and later ones still count, so a round someone solves in ten seconds is still worth playing out.
The artist is paid once for the room getting there — whoever gets it, and however many people do. That’s deliberate: being paid for the room rather than per guess means there’s no reward for giving the word away.
Worth being straight about the limit, though. Whoever’s drawing is anonymous — they’re a browser with a name they typed, and nothing ties that to a TikTok account — so the game can’t recognise an artist who also types the word in chat under their own handle. What it can do is refuse any guess that lands before the drawing has been on screen long enough for anyone to have seen it. Your viewers are several seconds behind the stream, so a real guess can’t be that fast; only the artist can. That’s what stops the version of this that actually breaks a round, and the rest is the room’s to notice — a drawing “solved” the instant it appears is obvious to everybody watching.
Two things to tell your room
The delay is real. Your viewers watch through a broadcast delay of roughly five to twelve seconds, so the artist sees a reaction long after the line that caused it. The default round is deliberately generous for that reason; a short one feels broken rather than tense.
Open your stage before the round, not during it. Strokes are sent live and aren’t replayed, so a stage that connects mid-round has missed what was drawn before it arrived. It says so on the canvas rather than showing an empty page.
Setup
Pick a category (or leave it mixed), a difficulty — easy words are one shape each, tricky ones need a whole scene — how many rounds, and how long each one runs. Words draw through deck memory, so a room that plays weekly works through the deck before it repeats. That matters more here than in a guessing game: a repeat word means a repeat drawing, and regulars remember drawings long after they’d have forgotten a trivia answer.