Test-play your world

Test-play lets you play your draft before anyone else does. You can find mistakes, hear how the narrator sounds, and change the world until it plays the way you want. This guide plays one turn in Saltmere.

Open Test-play

Test-play is a button in the top bar of the editor, beside Publish.

Press it. A panel called Test-play opens over the editor. Your draft stays as it is behind the panel, and you can close the panel at any time.

Two ways to play

The panel has two tabs, called How to play this draft.

Scripted narrator: The engine, in this browser. Its footer says: "The engine, in this browser. Nothing is saved and nothing is spent." It plays turns that you write or load, so a new world starts with none and the tab is empty. Use it to check how the world's rules and places answer a list of turns that you chose.
Live model: The real pipeline on the server. Its footer says: "The real pipeline on the server. Held in memory for half an hour, written down nowhere." It is a real narrator answering a real turn, so a Live model turn costs credits, like a normal turn.

The Live model tab picked in the Test-play panel, with the empty story box and the line box under it

Play a turn

Pick Live model. The panel says "Nothing played yet. Say what you do." Click the box under the story and type what your character does or says. Here, the player is Mara, and she says I'm Mara. I came to map the cliffs.

The Live model composer with Mara's line typed in and the Send button outlined

Press Send. The narrator answers, and the turn is counted above the story. The reply in the picture is an example written for this guide. Your own narrator will answer in its own words.

Mara's line, and below it the narrator's reply in Saltmere

Under a reply, a row of chips shows what the turn changed in the world.

Fix and try again

If something reads wrong, close the panel, change the draft, and play again. A session keeps playing the draft it started with, so the panel tells you when the draft has moved on and offers to restart with the new one. Reset ends the session and starts a fresh one.

If Test-play refuses to start, the Problems column on the right of the editor lists everything that needs fixing, and each problem links to its field.

When it is ready

When the world plays the way you want, publish it for review.