Writing good prompts and tagging players
What makes a good sentence for the drawing round, and how to bring fellow players into your prompt with @, @? and @!.
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A good prompt is short, concrete and leaves room for the artist's own ideas. With an @ you can also bring fellow players into your sentence - then the drawing shows somebody from your round, not just anybody.
What makes a good prompt
- A scene, not a list. "A nice boat on the sea" can be drawn in the time you have. Ten details cannot.
- Not too difficult, not too narrow. The artist should be able to add an idea of their own.
- Think of the clock. Every drawing round has a time limit. A prompt that works in two minutes beats one that would need an hour.
- Stay friendly. Everyone looks at the pictures together at the end, often on stream.
Tagging players
While you write, ColorMari suggests the names of your fellow players as soon as you type an @.
| You write | What happens |
|---|---|
@ and a name |
You tag exactly that person. |
@? |
The artist picks a person from the round themselves. |
@! |
ColorMari fills in a random person - or a VIP, if the game leader has named any. |
Example: "@? rides a seahorse".
Some rounds require a tag in the prompt. The input field then says so.
Finding the pictures you were tagged in
After the game ColorMari shows you the pictures you were tagged in. All others are in the game history - more about that in Your drawings after the game.
- prompt
- tagging
- vip
- gameplay
More guides
- The Echo game modeColorMari's classic - everyone writes a sentence, the others draw it, and at the end you see how differently one and the same sentence can turn out.
- The Draw & Guess game modeOne player draws live, everyone else guesses - how a turn goes, how the points come about and what the host can set.
- The Telephone game modeDraw, describe, draw again - how a chain of pictures and sentences comes about, who sees what when, and how to keep it from breaking.
- How ColorMari worksA round of ColorMari in three steps - think up prompts, draw, look at the results together. Plus what sets the game modes Echo, Storyteller, Telephone and Custom apart.