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FAQ

The questions people actually ask.

If yours is not here, write to us — the good ones end up on this page.

Playing

Is it free?

All of it, always — Premium sells convenience to people who run a lot of worlds, and nothing sold will ever make a hero stronger.

Do I need an account?

Not to play: an account is what lets your hero follow you to another device, host a world, or walk into somebody else’s.

Does it work on a phone or a tablet?

Yes — an on-screen pad with the same buttons, built for landscape, and installable to your home screen.

Can I play with no internet?

Yes: open it once and solo play, saves and all work on a train with no signal. The art is two small picture files and the world comes from a seed, so the whole game fits on the device.

How do I save?

The game saves itself — on a lit star, on a level, and every few seconds besides.

Playing with other people

What is the always-on world?

A world on a machine of its own rather than in somebody’s tab, so it keeps its clock and everybody’s hero between visits — and an orb falls on the town at eight every evening.

Do I keep my hero when I join a world?

No — every world keeps its own characters, so you start at level 1 there, pick that hero back up on every visit after, and your hero at home is never touched.

Can I host a world for my friends?

Yes, straight from the browser — 3 worlds on a free account and 15 on Premium, each with a permanent room code, and your tab is the world so keep it open.

Somebody is being unpleasant in my world. What can I do?

Press P on your own world and every name has warn, kick and ban beside it.

Accounts

I have forgotten my password.

You do not need it — press EMAIL ME A 6-DIGIT CODE, and set a new password once you are in.

My code has not arrived.

Check the spam folder, then press SEND AGAIN — codes last about an hour and work once.

What does Premium actually get me?

$2.99 a month for an address on Lantern Row — one of six front doors on the town square, with your name over it — three characters on every world, first through the door when a world is full, room codes you choose yourself, and 100 Skyshards a month for Vesper's stall. Nothing that makes a hero stronger, and it is not on sale yet.

How do I delete my account?

Write to scriptthemarket@gmail.com and we will delete it and the save behind it, without asking why.

Parents

Is this safe for my child?

It is made for children and a child can play all of it with no account at all — nothing typed, nothing sent, nothing kept anywhere but their own browser.

On a shared world: a language filter on by default, chat that is never stored, hosts who can warn, kick and ban, and no voice chat, friend requests, advertising or analytics anywhere.

What do you collect?

Nothing at all from a guest, and an email address plus a saved game from an account — the full detail is on the Privacy page.

Can I turn the chat off?

Solo play has no chat in it at all, and on a shared world the language filter is on by default.

The game itself

Who made it?

Three people, Paxton, Dexter and Ty, in Phaser. The ground and every creature are two 16-pixel picture files of about 200kB, which is why it opens fast and plays offline.

Something is broken.

Tell us what you were doing, what happened, and what you expected instead.