Frequently asked questions

Anyone can view the home, FAQ, and help pages. You need an account to open the game library, play games, save progress, or write your own games.

An adventure game is an interactive story in which you explore places, meet characters, solve problems, and choose what happens next. Your decisions can lead through different paths to different endings.

Yes. Save stores a draft even when it has errors. Validate explains what needs attention, and Play is available once the source has no validation errors.

Open your game in the editor and press Share. After it validates, the editor saves it and creates a test link. Anyone with that link can play the current game in Demo mode, without access to your editor or saved progress.

It is the short filename-friendly identifier for your game, such as clockwork-island. Use only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores.

Yes. Every game is separate. Within one game, each fully qualified page ID must be unique. Namespaces can organise larger games into chapters.

Errors prevent the game from running, such as a choice pointing to a missing page. Warnings identify likely issues, such as an unreachable page, but still allow Play.

Yes. Bundled or filesystem-based games can declare a stylesheet to customize colours, fonts, buttons, and page backgrounds. The editor has separate tabs for the main game.game source and the game's styles/game.css file.

Web links beginning with http:// or https:// open in a new tab. Other destinations display the link text in an information dialog.

Loading restores the saved page, inventory, and one-time event history. Random text is selected again when the page is generated.