ChatSky

Most games put a minimap or objective text top-centre. Centre gap keeps that strip of wire empty. Birds re-perch around it live.

Turn OFF (or ?transparent=1) for a transparent overlay in OBS. Broadcaster: !bg.

A soft wash at the top that fades out downward, so it never cuts a hard line across gameplay.

One bird per chatter. Names fade in when someone talks and fade out again — that keeps the wire readable when it's busy. Quiet birds fly off after a while.

Awning, window, panda at the counter. The wire ties off to the awning post.

Sub → heart balloon drifts up past the wire. Raid → the whole flock lands at once. Bits → crumbs scatter on the wire and the birds hop over to peck.

Duration takes 5m, 90s, 1m30s, 2h — or a plain number, which means minutes. The field rewrites itself to what it understood when you press Start.

Entrants get a ribbon. Mods: !giveaway 5m 2w (!giveaway cancel to stop). Viewers type !join.

A little chalkboard hanging off the wire listing viewer commands. Anyone can toggle it with !commands.

A bird tows a banner with your handle across the sky on a timer.

Broadcaster: !mute toggles all of it from chat.

OBS pipes a Browser Source's audio into your stream, so viewers hear these over the game and mic — that is why they only fire on events, never on ordinary chat messages.

Every colour on screen comes from one CSS block at the top of this file (:root). When Socks lands her rebrand hex codes, edit those ~12 lines and the whole overlay recolours — the artwork has no colours baked into it.

Layers fake chat on top of live chat so you can see it full. Real chat keeps working. Broadcaster: !demo. A SIMULATED badge shows on screen whenever this is on.