About Overlayed
🤔 Why does Overlayed exist
Overlayed was created because there is not an official “out of game” overlay for Discord. I created Overlayed to be able to see your voice chat even when you are not gaming or on a device that doesn’t support the native overlay.
đź“” Backstory on the Offical Discord Game Overlay
The way the Official game overlay works is very similar to how game hacking works. It will find the process that it wants to inject a browser redering engine.
Keep in mind the Discord overlay only works on windows so if you are on Linux or macOS there is no support for you. Also, the game overlay requires Discord themselves to reverse engineer every game which is why they have a limited list of supported games.
🔍 How does it work
TL;DR the Discord client exposes a websocket on port range 6463-6472 and you can use the Discord RPC API to interface with the desktop client.
🦺 Is this safe to use
Probably not “fully ToS compliant” but you’re unlikely to get banned for using it. I’ve tried to contact Discord several times to get an approved application but they refused to give me any help.
Latest Discord Support thread 🍿 
