Etiquette
People play iSketch to have a good time, not to be offended or disgusted. Use the chat box for friendly banter or to chat politely with the other people in your room.
Things
NOT to do in the chat:
- Flood: Repeatedly sending the same message to the chat box.
It's irritating.
- Use all capitals: If you've ever used any other form of Internet
chat (IRC, AOL chat), you know that capitalization is usually
regarded as cyber-shouting and unnecessary.
- Make prejudiced comments: Don't attack people's race, religion
or any other qualities.
- Engage in "cybersex": The virtual equivalent of public displays
of affection, only not as cute. If you find true love on iSketch,
good for you; but remember: you can send private messages! Just
type "/MSG username your message".
If someone is causing trouble, you can use the /IGNORE command to prevent
their messages from appearing.
The windows
There are three main windows:
GAME is where your guesses should go.
CHAT is for chatting with other players, both openly or privately.
Click on either "Game" or "Chat" window to make it active (the active window will be yellow). You can also press the TAB key to toggle between the windows.
USERS lists the players in the room with their corresponding
scores.
Pointing at a username in the userlist will show you the player's profile.
Clicking and holding down the mouse button on a player's name will
show a window with some command shortcuts:
Selecting the username in the pop-up window allows
you to chat privately with the player. The window will turn blue indicating
a private chat. Click anywhere else to return to normal mode.
Ignore will hide messages from the selected player. To cancel, click again.
Boot gives you the option to vote a player out of the game.
This option is not available for newbies.
Text commands
There are a number of commands available you may type in the text input box. Those
of you familiar with
IRC will
recognize many of them. All commands begin with a forward slash (/)
in order to separate them from normal chat text.
Command
Explanation
Example
/ME
Tells the other users about what you are
doing.
/ME smiles
/MSG
Sends a private message to any connected
user. You can send messages to users in other rooms this way.
/MSG Username Hi there!
/QUERY
Starts a private chat with a user. Same
thing as clicking on a name in the userlist. Handy when you
want to start a chat with someone who isn't in the same room.
You can also add an initial message after the Username if
you want.
/QUERY Username
/USERS
Displays the names of all the players in
a room.
/USERS Trivia
/FIND
Tells you what room (if any) a user is
in. Useful to check if your friends are playing without having
to enter every room and see if they are there.
/FIND Username
/AWAY
Same thing as clicking "Away". Used
when you have to leave the game for shorter periods.
/AWAY
/DRAWORDER
Lists the drawing queue in the current
room.
/DRAWORDER
/RR
Displays the room description as shown when
you click on the room name from the lobby. Displays what the custom room
creator enters as room description.
/RR
/IGNORE
Mutes a specific user. Anything that user
says will not be visible for you. If you want to un-mute the
user you issue the same command again.
/IGNORE Username
/TIME
Displays the local time of a player.
/TIME Username
/PING
Tells you how fast your network connection
is. The username is optional and will tell you how fast the
connection between you and another player is. If you just
enter "/PING" it will tell you the time (in milliseconds)
for a message to pass to the server and back. A good value
is 500ms, values over 1000ms are bad.
/PING Username
/JOIN
Go directly to another room. Same thing
as going back to the roomlist and selecting a room there.
Be sure to spell the roomname right or you will end up in
an empty room.
/JOIN French
/BACK
Sends you back to the room you were
previously in.
/BACK
/COPY
Copies the current image to your clipboard.
You can then paste it into your favourite image-editing program
and save it from there.
/COPY
/CLEAR
Removes all text from the chat windows.
/CLEAR
/PROFILE
Shows the profile of a user. Handy if
you want to check the profile of someone in another room.
/PROFILE Username
/INVITE
Invites another user to play in the room
you are currently in.
/INVITE Username
/ACCEPT
Accept an invitation and join that room.
/ACCEPT
/PARAM
Shows the room settings. (Time, wordlist,
hints etc.)
/PARAM
/STATS
Shows how much time you have spent on
iSketch as well as the number of games played and won.
/STATS
/NOTIFY
Add a username to a list of names to look
out for. When a name on the list logs on, you will be notified
(and the name removed from the notification list.) To remove
a name from the list, just repeat the command. To list the
current notification list, just enter the command without
a username.
/NOTIFY Username
/TEAM
Join a team. Teamnames can be a maximum
of three letters. We suggest you name them numerically ("1",
"2" etc.) If you want to leave a team, use the command without
any team name.
/TEAM 1
/TEAMS
Lists the current teams in the room.
/TEAMS
/KISS
Gives a person a kiss. :-*
/KISS Username
/HUG
Hug someone.
/HUG Username
/FLIRT
Flirt with someone. ;)
/FLIRT Username
/SLAP
Slap someone.
/SLAP Username
/LAUGH
Laugh at/with someone :-D
/LAUGH Username
/CLAP
Applaud someone.
/CLAP Username
/BYE
Say goodbye to someone
/BYE Username
/USERCOUNT
Tells you how many players in total there are online.
/USERCOUNT
The following commands can only be used by room operators in user-created rooms. The person that created the room is automatically made an operator, he can then assign other players to be operators as well.