diff --git a/src/client/chat--center.jsx b/src/client/chat--center.jsx
index 4d9c493..5a34fb9 100644
--- a/src/client/chat--center.jsx
+++ b/src/client/chat--center.jsx
@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@ import './chat--center.scss';
 
 import React from 'react';
 
+import ChatMessages from './chat--messages';
+
 export default function ChatCenter() {
   return (
-    <div className="chat__center flexed" />
+    <div className="center flexed">
+      <ChatMessages />
+    </div>
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/src/client/chat--center.scss b/src/client/chat--center.scss
index 3068644..3eee874 100644
--- a/src/client/chat--center.scss
+++ b/src/client/chat--center.scss
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-.chat__center {
+.center {
   flex-grow: 1;
 }
diff --git a/src/client/chat--message.jsx b/src/client/chat--message.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9e53942
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/chat--message.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import './chat--message.scss';
+
+import classnames from 'classnames';
+import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
+import React from 'react';
+import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
+
+export default function PlayersChatMessageSpace(props) {
+  const {message: {owner, text, timestamp}, isShort} = props;
+  const ownerMap = {
+    1: 'cha0s',
+    2: 'BabeHasHiccups',
+  };
+  const dtf = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(undefined, {
+    hour: '2-digit',
+    minute: '2-digit',
+  });
+  const date = new Date(timestamp);
+  const $messageTime = (
+    <div
+      className="chat--messageTime"
+      title={date.toISOString()}
+    >
+      {dtf.format(date)}
+    </div>
+  );
+  return (
+    <div
+      className={classnames('chat--message', {short: isShort})}
+    >
+      {
+        !isShort && (
+          <header>
+            <div className="chat--messageOwner">{ownerMap[owner]}</div>
+            {$messageTime}
+          </header>
+        )
+      }
+      <div className="chat--messageText">
+        <div className="chat--messageMarkdown">
+          <ReactMarkdown source={text} />
+        </div>
+        {isShort && $messageTime}
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+PlayersChatMessageSpace.propTypes = {
+  isShort: PropTypes.bool.isRequired,
+  message: PropTypes.shape({
+    text: PropTypes.string,
+    timestamp: PropTypes.number,
+    owner: PropTypes.string,
+  }).isRequired,
+};
diff --git a/src/client/chat--message.scss b/src/client/chat--message.scss
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..57dddfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/chat--message.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+.chat--message {
+  margin-top: 0.75rem;
+  padding: 0.25rem 1rem;
+}
+
+.chat--message, .chat--message * {
+  font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
+}
+
+.chat--message:first-child {
+  margin-top: 0;
+}
+
+.chat--message.short {
+  margin-top: 0;
+  margin-bottom: 0;
+}
+
+.chat--message.short .chat--messageTime {
+  display: inline;
+  visibility: hidden;
+}
+
+.chat--message.short:hover .chat--messageTime {
+  visibility: visible;
+}
+
+.chat--message.short .chat--messageOwner {
+  display: none;
+}
+
+.chat--message:hover {
+  background-color: #1c1c1c;
+}
+
+header {
+  display: flex;
+  width: 100%;
+}
+
+.chat--messageOwner {
+  color: #d68030aa;
+  font-family: Caladea, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;
+  font-weight: bold;
+  margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
+}
+
+.chat--messageTime {
+  color: #666;
+  font-size: 0.7rem;
+  margin-left: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.chat--message:not(.short) .chat--messageTime {
+  line-height: 1.25rem;
+}
+
+.chat--messageText {
+  font-size: 0.9rem;
+}
+
+.chat--messageMarkdown * {
+  margin: 0;
+}
+
+.chat--messageMarkdown {
+  h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
+    line-height: 1rem;
+  }
+}
+
+.chat--messageMarkdown {
+  display: inline;
+}
+
+.chat--messageMarkdown :first-child {
+  margin-top: 0;
+}
+
+.chat--messageMarkdown :last-child {
+  display: inline;
+}
diff --git a/src/client/chat--messages.jsx b/src/client/chat--messages.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2966b11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/chat--messages.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+import './chat--messages.scss';
+
+import React, {useLayoutEffect, useRef, useState} from 'react';
+
+import ChatMessage from './chat--message';
+
+export default function PlayersChatSpace() {
+  const [$form, $messages] = [useRef(null), useRef(null)];
+  const [text, setText] = useState('');
+  const messages = [
+    {
+      key: 1,
+      owner: 1,
+      text: 'Hi!',
+      timestamp: Date.now(),
+    },
+    {
+      key: 2,
+      owner: 2,
+      text: 'Yo.',
+      timestamp: Date.now(),
+    },
+    {
+      key: 3,
+      owner: 2,
+      text: 'How have you been?',
+      timestamp: Date.now(),
+    },
+    {
+      key: 4,
+      owner: 1,
+      text: 'Not too bad.',
+      timestamp: Date.now(),
+    },
+  ];
+  const {current} = $messages;
+  const isAtTheBottom = !current
+    ? true
+    : 0 === current.scrollTop || (
+      current.scrollHeight
+      === current.scrollTop
+        + ['margin-top', 'margin-bottom'].reduce((r, property) => (
+          r + parseInt(window.getComputedStyle(current).getPropertyValue(property), 10)
+        ), current.offsetHeight)
+    );
+  const heightWatch = current && current.scrollHeight;
+  const messageCount = messages && messages.length;
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    if (isAtTheBottom) {
+      current?.scrollTo(0, !current ? 0 : current.scrollHeight);
+    }
+  }, [current, heightWatch, messageCount, isAtTheBottom]);
+  let messageOwner = false;
+  return (
+    <div className="chat--messages">
+      <div className="chat--messagesSmoosh" />
+      <div
+        className="chat--messagesList"
+        ref={$messages}
+      >
+        {messages && messages.map((message) => {
+          const $message = (
+            <ChatMessage
+              key={message.key}
+              isShort={messageOwner === message.owner}
+              message={message}
+            />
+          );
+          messageOwner = message.owner;
+          return $message;
+        })}
+      </div>
+      <form
+        onSubmit={(event) => {
+          event.preventDefault();
+          const trimmed = text.slice(0, 1000).trim();
+          if (trimmed) {
+            // socket.send(new ActionPacket(chat({owner: playerId, text: trimmed}, {game: id})));
+          }
+          setText('');
+        }}
+        ref={$form}
+      >
+        <textarea
+          className="chat--messagesTextarea"
+          name="message"
+          type="textarea"
+          maxLength="1000"
+          onChange={(event) => {
+            setText(event.target.value);
+          }}
+          onKeyDown={(event) => {
+            if ('Enter' === event.key && !event.shiftKey) {
+              $form.current?.dispatchEvent(new Event('submit', {cancelable: true}));
+              event.preventDefault();
+            }
+          }}
+          value={text}
+        />
+      </form>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/client/chat--messages.scss b/src/client/chat--messages.scss
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..afa49aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/chat--messages.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+.chat--messages {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  height: 100%;
+}
+
+.chat--messagesSmoosh {
+  flex-grow: 1;
+}
+
+.chat--messagesList {
+  overflow-y: auto;
+}
+
+.chat--messagesTextarea {
+  background-color: #333;
+  border: none;
+  border-radius: 10px;
+  color: #aaa;
+  font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Regular', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
+  font-size: 0.9rem;
+  height: 4rem;
+  margin: 0.5rem 1rem 1rem;
+  padding: 0.5rem;
+  resize: none;
+  width: calc(100% - 2rem);
+}