Game options for hosts

As the game leader you decide in the lobby who may play and how the round goes. The default settings work right away; everything here is fine-tuning.

Who may enter the lobby

Under Access you set who can get into your game:

The home page lists all running games. A game that is not public only appears there as Invitation only, without host or code.

How the round goes

• Game mode: you click one of six cards: Echo, Storyteller, Telephone, Draw & Guess, Template or Custom - explained in How ColorMari works. On the right of the lobby, the Game mode tab shows step by step how the chosen mode goes; next to it is the Chat.
• Drawing rounds: how often everyone draws.
• Time per drawing: the time limit of every round. The lobby shows roughly how long the game will take with it.
• Player limit: how many people can play at most.
• Topic: a guideline for the prompts. Several lines make several prompt rounds.
• VIP mode: you mark individual players as VIPs. With @! in a prompt, ColorMari then fills in one of them.

You cannot start a game alone - it takes at least a second person.

Your own rounds (Custom)

In Custom mode you set up every round yourself:

• Duplicate round: in a round's window (click the row), the button puts a copy of that round below it.
• Reorder: drag a round by the grip at the left of its row to its new place.
• My round plans: below the rounds you save the current rounds under a name with Save (the disk button). You choose a saved plan and bring it back with Use; the bin deletes the chosen plan. Plans stay in your account, for later lobbies too.

The player list

In the player list you can, for every person:

• toggle their VIP status,
• make them game master,
• kick them,
• ban them. A banned player cannot rejoin this game.

The list can be searched and sorted, and you can copy all names - handy for the whitelist of the next round.

While the game runs

During the game you still have three levers as the game leader:

• Extend time: add minutes to the running round. This cannot be done without limit.
• Force next round: when everyone is done, or somebody no longer responds.
• Cancel game.

At the end of a game, Next game opens a new lobby with the same settings, and you stay the host. Everyone else sees a notice for five seconds and is then taken along automatically - right away with Go now, or they stay behind with Stay here.

If you leave the lobby as the game leader, it is closed.