LiveLocator

A GeoGuessr-style round. Each round drops the room into a Street View panorama; everyone guesses which country it’s in, and each guess is scored by how close it lands. Unlike the other guessing games, everyone gets a chance every round — you’re scored on accuracy, not just who was first.

Gameplay

How scoring works

LiveLocator scores accuracy on a smooth curve: the closer your country sits to the real one, the more points you bank — no all-or-nothing.

• Right country = 5,000. Naming the exact country always scores the maximum, wherever in it the panorama sits.
• Close counts. A wrong-but-neighbouring country still scores well; the further off you are, the less you bank.
• Guess early for a speed bonus. When enabled, an earlier correct guess is worth more than a late one.
• No copying. Guessing a country someone else already called, seconds later, is discounted — so reading the scene beats reading chat.
• Precision pays. Naming the city, or the landmark itself, scores the precision bonus on top — 500 by default, so a precise guess clears the 5,000 a country guess caps at. It only pays when the country is right: being specific about the wrong place is still wrong.

Answering with a city

Chat doesn’t type “France” when the Eiffel Tower fills the screen; they type “Paris”. Those guesses now resolve, scored as the country they’re in — 446 cities across the pool’s 80 countries, plus the ones chat shouts for countries the panorama set doesn’t cover (Moscow, Cairo, Beijing).

Matching ignores case, accents and punctuation, so sao paulo, São Paulo and SAO PAULO! are one answer. On a landmark round the landmark’s own name works too, and tolerates the way the source titles are written — christ the redeemer matches a row stored as “Christ the Redeemer (statue)“. A bare common word never matches: “tower” doesn’t claim the Eiffel Tower.

Set Precision bonus to 0 if you’d rather a city just scored as its country with nothing extra.

Showing the working

At reveal, a score can carry chips explaining how it got there:

• −320 copied — what the anti-copy decay took off this guess.
• +500 named the city (or named it, on a landmark round) — what the precision bonus paid.

Both always show. They used to sit behind switches, which was a setting for something nobody wanted off: a penalty nobody sees can’t teach chat to stop copying — the only signal is a score that looks low for no reason — and a bonus nobody sees isn’t an incentive to be precise.

The breakdown is withheld from every guess until reveal, though. A copy penalty visible mid-round would tell the room that somebody has already guessed that country.

Configuration

Picking a pool

The Street View set is 78% residential — a suburban street with no signage, no businesses and nothing to reason from. That’s the round most chats read worst, which is why Locations now defaults to Mixed rather than to Street View alone.

Mixed draws an even split from both pools and shuffles it, so a session gets both kinds without chat being able to count rounds and work out what’s coming. It used to strictly alternate, which guaranteed the balance but made every round after the second one predictable. Landmarks is the curated set on its own — 433 famous places across 80 countries, which plays far better with a chat that doesn’t know bollards and number plates. Street View is the classic pool if you want it unmixed.

On a deployment without the landmark data file the default falls back to Street View, since Mixed would have nothing to draw against.

The set spans five kinds, and they play like different games:

A chat that bounces off cathedrals is often excellent at stadiums, so it’s worth a few sessions before writing the pool off.

The pool deliberately contains no sites whose meaning is mass atrocity — no death camps, no genocide memorials. They’re landmarks by any structural definition and they aren’t quiz material.

Landmark rounds store a coordinate rather than a fixed panorama. The viewer searches outward from it — 100m, then 500m, 3km, 15km — for the nearest outdoor imagery, then turns to face the target, so the round opens looking at the thing it’s about. The widening search is what makes remote entries playable: at Uluru or Torres del Paine the nearest panorama is a road several hundred metres off, and a fixed 50m search would render a dead grey round.

Region applies to both pools.

Scoring. points (default) crowns the highest cumulative score. In elimination, the lowest-scoring guesser is cut each round and the last one standing wins.

Round timer. Manual by default (the host reveals when ready); set a number of seconds to run a per-round countdown instead.

Speed bonus. When on, a correct guess early in the round is worth more than a late one — turn it off for classic distance-only scoring.

Score-floor gift. A gift that locks in a minimum score for the sender this round (see Gifts). Defaults to Galaxy setting a 2,500 floor; the max floor is a perfect 5,000.

Layout

1. Marquee — game title and how-to hint.
2. Round + gift strip — round number, and the score-floor gift when configured.
3. Panorama — the Street View scene to place.
4. Leaderboard — players ranked by score, with each round’s best distance.
5. Got-it pill — a safe live count of how many have the right country.
6. Gift floors — which players locked in a score with a gift this round.

The game moves through Lobby → Round → Revealed → Finished.

Gifts

LiveLocator’s gift sets a score floor — a guaranteed minimum for the sender this round. It rewards spend without buying accuracy.

• Sending a configured gift sets your round score to at least the gift’s floor — e.g. a Galaxy locks in 2,500.
• It only ever raises your score: if your typed guess already scored higher, the floor does nothing.
• The maximum floor is 5,000 — a perfect round — and floors reset every round.

Scoring

• Points: the highest cumulative score across all rounds wins.
• Elimination: the lowest-scoring guesser (or guessers, if tied) is cut each round; the last standing wins. Only players who actually guessed are eligible to be cut.
• Scores feed the per-streamer tally behind avatar ring tiers. Wins are tracked per streamer.
• Points are also broken down by country on a player’s public profile, so a regular’s profile shows where in the world they’re strong.
• LiveLocator achievements cover more than winning: naming a landmark or a city, scoring on three different kinds of landmark in one session, and getting through a session without ever losing points to the copy penalty.