One screen runs the show. Everyone else piles in from their phones: debaters on stage, voyeurs heckling from the crowd, viewers watching from the comfort of a browser. The game deals the topics, runs the clocks, counts the sway, and an announcer with far too many opinions stirs the pot. You bring the voice. It brings everything else, including the consequences.
Play from your phone, or just watch the big screen. You can change your mind halfway through. Most people do.
Fully reversible. Probably.
Fire up the app on a TV, a monitor or a stream. It makes the room, the 4-character code and the QR, then handles the timers, the votes and the announcer's ego.
Everyone opens mdwf.app, types the code, done. No installs, no downloads, no "hang on, it's updating". Rather watch? The same code opens the big screen in any browser.
The wheel picks the topic, stances get claimed (or dealt), and the sway meter crowns whoever argued it better. Grudges optional but traditional.
Four ways to fight tonight. Every one of them is named exactly what it sounds like, and every one of them has an explainer read by a narrator who is trying very hard to stay professional.
Faction warfare. Vote agree or disagree and that's your team. Plan in private team chat, vote on a team name you'll regret, elect who opens, then tag each other in and out of the mic while the room strokes the sway meter.
Two people, one proposition, and a room that has already made up its mind. Openings, free rebuttal, closings, then the floor decides who did the better job, which is not the same as being right.
Everyone writes a claim they'd die on. The one that draws the most fury puts its author in the hot seat, where they hold out against a queue of challengers who race a buzzer for the privilege. Doing badly? The circle yanks you.
A boring headline breaks. Your phone secretly deals you HALO or HIT PIECE, and together you spin it: glowing coverage or a hatchet job. Two front pages go head to head, and only then do the bylines flip.
The newspaper game. Every round the room writes a paper, one phase at a time, and the game's own press rolls a real front page onto the screen: masthead, date line, breaking banner, a stamp, and your byline under words you will one day have to explain.
Switch on the AI article and the bot fills the columns for you. Winning papers get saved, and the best ones rotate on the stream between games, where they can haunt you forever.
Click to spin. Hover to hold the press.
Showing The Daily Halo, the HALO version.
We keep building new ways to argue. We can't tell you what or when, mostly because we keep changing our minds, which is on brand. Backers and the Discord see them first.
Legal has read the name. Legal has asked for a minute. Legal is still in the minute.
There's always a wheel. We are not a strong enough company to resist a wheel.
Players already write topics, headlines and trivia for the game. Suggest a whole mode in the Discord and watch us pretend we thought of it.
Two people arguing is a fight. Two people arguing in front of everyone is a show.
On stage, under the clock, fighting for the sway meter. Lifetime stats follow your name, so regulars keep their score and their shame.
The crowd, with power: vote stances, sway the meter mid-round, lob questions into the live Q&A, and hop on stage when the game allows. You are the jury, and the jury is rowdy.
Phone in hand, lights off. Lock the room and newcomers slip in the back door as a headcount, not a name, until they ask to join and get waved into the crowd.
The big screen, live in any browser, with the show's sound if you want it. Nothing to press, nothing to break. One button turns you into a player.
A party game, a TV show and a Discord server walk into a bar. This is what came out.
No app, no install, no password. A code and a name and you're arguing.
Anyone with the code can follow the big screen live in a browser, full screen, sound on request.
Reads your name, calls the play-by-play, and will roast you on request. Or hype you. Your call, your funeral.
Explains every game like a late-night infomercial. Side effects include raised voices.
Polls, reminders, the voice call, the house rules and a crosstalk referee. It never sleeps. It just mutes.
Every react nudges it. It can tell when you're faking. It's always watching.
Dress up for the stream with points you earned by being loud. Fashion is a contact sport.
Tonight's table, the all-time board, and trophies for things you'll want to deny.
The worst thing you said tonight, filed forever and shown on the stream between games.
Call someone out to a 1v1 from Discord or your phone. The host approves the grudge match.
Repaint the whole show in one tap. The arguments stay the same colour: heated.
One window for the host with every knob, a live control for going On Air, and a panic button that really works.
The official MassDebate Discord is invite only. It's where we test new builds, play alpha game nights, break things on purpose, and argue about whether the arguing is working.
Games stream on the official channel, so even if you're not on stage you can watch the show, heckle in the chat and judge people you've never met. Getting in is earned or invited. There may or may not be a secret handshake. We're not allowed to confirm the handshake.
Every paid Patreon tier comes with the patron lounge. Link Discord to Patreon and the door opens itself.
Know someone inside? Be delightful at them. Invites travel by word of mouth, ideally a mouth that argues in good faith (and bad taste).
Catch a streamed game night, win an argument in the chat, and get noticed. We're watching the watchers.
And the answers, delivered calmly, for once.
One person runs MassDebate on a TV, monitor or stream: that screen is the show. Everyone else opens mdwf.app on their phone and types the 4-character code. Phones are the remotes; the arguing is all you. Voice happens wherever you already talk: the couch, Discord, a call.
Four right now: Mass Debate (team against team), Mutual Dissatisfaction (one on one), Circle Jerks (one hot seat against everyone) and Sit On It And Spin (two newsrooms spin the same boring story). Twists like Devil's Advocate and Edging change how a round plays, trivia fills the gaps, and more games are on the way.
Yes, two ways. Open the join page, type the code and pick Watch as a viewer: the big screen, live in your browser, nothing to press. Or join from your phone as a Spectator and lurk in the dark until you're ready to vote, sway and heckle as a Voyeur.
Whenever you like. The watch page has a Play on this device button that brings you in as a player for the same room (it says Join to play if this device hasn't met you yet). The room's door still applies: if the host locked it or set a password, you knock like everyone else.
Joining is free, forever, in the browser. Hosting runs on the host's own machine: no accounts, no server fees, no seat limits we charge for. The project is funded on Patreon, where backers get alpha invites, the Discord lounge and their name in the credits. And ads? Never. Not mid-round, not ever, full stop.
If you love phones-as-remotes chaos you'll feel right at home: same pile-in energy, zero installs. The difference: MassDebate is built entirely around arguing. Real timers, tag-team debates, a live sway meter, a newspaper that lies for you, and an announcer who absolutely has favourites.
No. Phones join through the browser at mdwf.app: type the code, pick a name, done. The only download is the host app, and only for the one person running the show.
It's invite only. Back the game on Patreon (every paid tier gets the lounge), get invited by someone already inside, or make an impression during a streamed game night. We'd tell you about the handshake, but then it wouldn't be secret.
Absolutely not. Say the name out loud again if you're unsure. The topics can run family-friendly, but the announcer's mouth and the game names cannot be trusted around anyone whose school still sends newsletters.
MassDebate is in active development. Alpha game nights run in the Discord, and invites, beta builds and sneak peeks go out on Patreon. Five rungs, all on theme. Say the top two out loud.