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How to make game overlay edits
Add advancement toasts, death screens, badge pop-ups and chat bubbles to your gameplay clips. Transparent overlays, free, no signup.
A gaming edit is mostly gameplay plus a few well-timed overlays: an advancement popping in on the funny moment, a death screen on the fail, a badge on the win. Recording those in-game means replaying the moment. It is faster to make the overlay yourself and drop it on the clip.
Every overlay in gaming starts with a transparent background, no shadow and square corners, so it exports ready to sit on top of your footage.
1. Pick the overlay
Block game: the Block game – Advancement toast, the Block game – Death screen, a Block game – Title & subtitle, the Block game – HUD taking damage with hearts draining, Block game – Live chat for scrolling chat, a single Block game – Chat message line, and a floating Block game – Username.
Obby game: a Obby game – Badge awarded notification, the Obby game – Purchase prompt, Obby game – Chat bubbles above a player, and the Obby game – Stage counter.
Other games and platforms: the Dark fantasy death screen, Bold “Game over” screen, “Mission complete” + reward, the #1 Victory banner banner, a Boss health bar, an Console achievement, a Console trophy, a PC game friend online pop-up, a Voice chat “Playing” activity card, a Live stream chat overlay overlay, a Kill feed, a Leaderboard and an XP / level-up bar.
2. Fill in the text
Everything on screen is a field in the Content tab. The advancement toast takes a type (which sets the frame and the sound-free look of a normal advancement, a goal or a challenge), the advancement text, an optional custom heading and an icon. The death screen takes a mode, a title, the death message and a score, and can show the cursor hovering over Respawn.
The block-game text fields accept color codes: &a for green, &c for red, &l for bold, and so on. That is how you get a colored name in the chat lines or a gold title.
On the obby-game side, the purchase prompt takes an item name, a creator, a price, your current balance and an item emoji or image, and it can play the click on Buy through to "Purchase completed". The obby counter takes a from-stage and a to-stage and counts between them.
3. Match the size to your footage
The block-game overlays have a GUI scale or Scale setting, and the HUD and death screen also take an area width and area height. Set those to the aspect ratio of your gameplay clip so the pixels line up with what the game would really draw. A HUD built at 16:9 and then squeezed into a 9:16 frame looks wrong to anyone who plays.
The same goes for the frame: set Aspect ratio in the Style tab to match the clip you are laying the overlay over, not the platform you post to, and let your editor handle the crop.
4. Time it
Most of these overlays time themselves. The advancement toast and the obby-game badge have a stay on screen setting and a slide out at the end switch. The block-game title has its own fade in, stay and fade out. The HUD damage and the boss bar take a number of hits, and the animation lasts as long as the hits need. Chat lines have a time between lines and can fade out after a while, like the real chat.
The Motion tab still applies on top: a start delay, an animation speed, how many times it plays, and the total video length.
5. Export and drop it on the clip
Leave Background on None and press Export, then For editing. Export a MOV for Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve, or a WebM for CapCut. Put it on a track above your gameplay and line the toast up with the moment. Details are in the transparent overlay guide.
Recommended settings
- A YouTube gaming video: 16:9 at 1080p, 60 fps to match gameplay footage.
- A TikTok or Shorts edit: 9:16 at 1080p. Keep the overlay in the middle third so captions don't cover it.
- Advancement toast: stay on screen about 3 seconds, slide out on.
- Death screen: full frame at your clip's aspect ratio, held for 4 seconds.
- Kill feed and chat: a smaller scale, placed in the corner where the game would put it.
Ideas that work
- Put an advancement toast on a real-life moment. "Advancement Made: woke up before noon" over a vlog clip is a whole format.
- Use the death screen as a punchline card after a fail, with the death message rewritten as the joke.
- Open a video with a title and subtitle, then cut straight into the gameplay.
- Run a boss health bar over an argument, a workout or a work deadline.
- Use the leaderboard or XP bar to show progress across a series.
Common mistakes
- Exporting MP4. The transparent background becomes black and covers your gameplay. Use MOV or WebM.
- The wrong area size. A HUD stretched to a different aspect ratio reads as fake instantly.
- Too many overlays. One per moment. A toast, a kill feed and a boss bar at once is a mess.
- Leaving the sample text in. Rewrite the advancement, the death message and the player names.
- Overlay too small to read on a phone. Raise the scale and check the preview at 9:16.
Questions people ask
Are these official game assets?
No. They are original designs drawn in the app, and they use no game names or logos. gizzMotion is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any game or studio.
Will these work as live stream alerts?
No. They are made for edited videos. There is nothing to connect to a streaming app, and no live trigger. Export a file and place it in your editor.
Is there sound?
No. Every export is silent, so there is no advancement ding or death sound. Add those in your editor.
Can I use my own skin or badge image?
Yes. The nametag takes a small face image, the obby-game badge takes a badge image, and the purchase prompt takes an item image. Uploads stay on your device.
Can I record my gameplay here?
No. gizzMotion makes the overlay only. Record with your usual capture software, then combine the two.