Questions and problems
Short on time? The quick answers
Section titled “Short on time? The quick answers”Each answer is a couple of lines, with a link if you want the detail.
How does Stream Bounty work?
Section titled “How does Stream Bounty work?”Like bingo, but you call events that happen on your stream in place of numbers. You write lists of events that might happen. Each viewer gets a card with a random selection of them. When an event happens, you call it and viewers mark it on their cards. Getting started
Where can I install Stream Bounty from?
Section titled “Where can I install Stream Bounty from?”From Twitch: add it to your channel here, then activate it in your Creator Dashboard as an overlay, a component or a panel.
Which browsers can I use to set it up?
Section titled “Which browsers can I use to set it up?”Chrome, Edge or another Chromium browser. In Firefox and other browsers that aren’t based on Chromium, activating the extension can hang.
What do I need to configure after installing?
Section titled “What do I need to configure after installing?”For a game played with events, at least 25 events in your event sets, enough to fill a five by five card. For a classic numbers game, nothing, unless you want your events to draw the numbers, which needs one event. Game modes · Events
How do I start a game?
Section titled “How do I start a game?”Open the Stream Bounty Quick Action in your Stream Manager (add it if it isn’t there), choose the settings and events, and create the game. It starts at once and viewers press Join Game. Running a game
How do I call events?
Section titled “How do I call events?”In the Quick Action’s Active Game tab, find the event, press it and confirm. Players then mark it on their own cards; it isn’t marked for them. Running a game
Can I undo a called event?
Section titled “Can I undo a called event?”Yes. Press the called event in the Active Game tab and confirm. Only you and your superusers can do this, and players who had already marked it keep their mark. Running a game
How does a player win?
Section titled “How does a player win?”By marking one of the game’s bingo patterns and pressing Bingo!. Any number of players can win. You see them in the order they claimed, and the game carries on until you end it.
How does voting work?
Section titled “How does voting work?”You start a voting round and players get two minutes to vote for an event that hasn’t been called. The one with the most votes is called. Everyone gets one free vote, and can cast more with bits where bits are available. Voting rounds
What can my moderators do?
Section titled “What can my moderators do?”They can always play. If Moderators are Superusers is on in User Access, they can also run games: start and end them, call events and start voting rounds. Who can run your games
Can people who aren’t moderators run my games?
Section titled “Can people who aren’t moderators run my games?”Yes. Add any Twitch user as a superuser in User Access. Who can run your games
How do I reset the leaderboard?
Section titled “How do I reset the leaderboard?”In Leaderboards in the extension’s configuration. It deletes your channel’s points and cannot be undone. For a fresh start without losing anything, run a tournament. Leaderboards and tournaments
More questions
Section titled “More questions”Which extension types can I use?
Section titled “Which extension types can I use?”All of them: overlay, component and panel. Stream Bounty also works on Twitch’s mobile apps.
Can I change how the cards look?
Section titled “Can I change how the cards look?”Not yet. You can change how games work, but not the look of the extension. You can add widgets to your stream and place them as you like.
Does it work with OBS, Streamlabs and StreamElements?
Section titled “Does it work with OBS, Streamlabs and StreamElements?”Yes. The widgets are browser sources, which all of them support.
How many cards can a player have?
Section titled “How many cards can a player have?”One when they join. Where bits are available, players can get extra cards with bits. Each card is claimed on its own, so a player can win more than once in a game.
Can I run a game just for subscribers?
Section titled “Can I run a game just for subscribers?”Yes. Turn on Subscribers Only when you create a game, or make it your default in Game Settings. You and your superusers can always join. Stream Bounty needs the “This extension can view my subscriptions list” permission, which you grant in your Creator Dashboard.
Who gets the bits spent in Stream Bounty?
Section titled “Who gets the bits spent in Stream Bounty?”Twitch splits them: you receive 80% and we receive 20%. Twitch sets the split and it can’t be changed. Bits and channel points
How are leaderboard points worked out?
Section titled “How are leaderboard points worked out?”See the table in Leaderboards and tournaments.
Can my bot call events?
Section titled “Can my bot call events?”Yes. Every event has a URL your bot can request, and Stream Bounty can message your bot when things happen in a game. Bots
When something isn’t working
Section titled “When something isn’t working”Activating the extension hangs, or I can’t add the panel
Section titled “Activating the extension hangs, or I can’t add the panel”Activate it from Chrome, Edge or another Chromium browser. If it still won’t activate, ask in our Discord and we’ll help.
The extension isn’t loading for my viewers
Section titled “The extension isn’t loading for my viewers”- Check that Stream Bounty is activated in your Twitch dashboard.
- Ask viewers to refresh the page.
- Check whether Twitch itself is having problems.
If none of that helps, ask in our Discord.
Viewers can’t buy extra cards or votes
Section titled “Viewers can’t buy extra cards or votes”Bits need monetization set up on your channel, which Twitch no longer limits to Affiliates and Partners, and must be turned on for Stream Bounty in your Creator Dashboard under Extensions. Bits and channel points
An automation has stopped counting
Section titled “An automation has stopped counting”Link your Twitch account again from Twitch Account in the configuration. Automations
Banned viewers are still on my leaderboard
Section titled “Banned viewers are still on my leaderboard”Link your Twitch account again to refresh the connection. Who can run your games
I found a bug
Section titled “I found a bug”Please tell us. Post in the #support channel of our Discord with what happened and the steps that lead to it.