studio · overview
The studio·
One page, three columns. The room on the left is the only thing that changes. Your game plays in the middle at 600 × 600, its real size whenever the window allows. Player two sits on the right and folds to a strip. Drag the line between the room and the game to give either more space.
The lime button at the foot of the room is always the next thing: Continue, Make it yours, Ship it, Share my game. In a room it reads Next: and the next thing that still needs art or a sound, then Back to make. Everything else is a plain button or a link.
On a phone, the studio is one column, and Player two in the bar at the top opens player two.
At the top·
| what it does | |
|---|---|
| Find | finds anything for your game by word: a sprite, a scene, a sound. / opens it too. |
| Help | a code to scan, so your phone becomes the companion. |
| the save mark | Saved to the server at a time, Saving to the server, or Not saved to the server yet. Click it to open the game menu. |
| the game menu | your game's name (click to rename it), and everything about this game. |
The game menu·
this game: Share my game (once it is shared, Copy my game's link), Earlier copies, the Co-op log, Back up to a file, Back up with its co-op log, and Open a game file.
go to: My games, You and player two (your own page), Spawn Point, The arcade, and Sign out.
At the foot, alone and in red: Start over from its starter game. The game you had is kept in Earlier copies first.
The address is the place·
#pick, #design, #make, #ship, and the rooms #art, #map, #sound, #decorate, #code. A room's own page has its own address too, like #art/player or #sound/catch. Reload, or press the back button, and you land where you were.
Keys·
| key | does |
|---|---|
| click the game then SPACE | start, or start again |
| ← → | move, in most starter games |
| Ctrl Z · Ctrl Y | undo · redo |
| Ctrl S | nothing to save by hand; if something changed, a copy goes in Earlier copies |
| / | Find |
| F1 | Help |
| Esc | out of full screen |
| Enter in player two | ask (Shift Enter for a new line) |
Signing out
spawn signs you out after 30 minutes with nothing pressed, with a minute's warning, and saves first. It also signs you out 12 hours after you signed in; anything not yet on the server waits on that computer until you sign in there again.