Path to playable

Every world, character, place and scenario has an edit screen, and every edit screen starts with a checklist, which is the one place the app tells you what is still missing. This page reads it row by row.

The list

The title

A world's and a scenario's list is called Path to playable, because the point of both is a story someone can start, while a character's and a place's is called Path to completeness, because they cannot be played on their own and are simply complete or not.

The count and the bar

6 / 7 means rows done out of rows in the list. The bar is red until the last row is done and then turns green. The title changes to Ready to play for a world and to All set for a scenario, a character or a place, and the rows give way to a short line such as Your world is ready to play. and a Play button on a world or a scenario. Red does not mean that something is wrong, only that a story cannot start yet.

A done row

A done row has a green check, which means the field has something in it. You can still change it on the edit screen below the list, but you cannot empty it again; the app says This field can't be empty anymore.

A row to do

A row to do has an empty circle and a chevron, and tapping it takes you to the field or to the thing the row is about. The rows are the wizard's screens under other names, so Add a subtitle is the second screen and Define your world the fifth.

A row about something else

The last row of a world's list is never a field, because Add a playable scenario takes you to the scenario wizard, and a world becomes playable only through a scenario. A scenario's list has the same kind of row in the other direction:

Finalize the world means that the scenario's world has an empty field, and Finalize character: Elijah Dawson means that one of the protagonists, or the opening character, does. Tapping either opens that thing's edit screen with its own list. These rows show up only while something is missing, so once you finish the world or the character, the row is gone.

If you chose an opening character but left their message empty, the list also has Finalize the opening message.

A character's list

A character's list is shorter and never about anything else, because a character needs only a name, a title, a description, a portrait and a definition, and then it is All set.

Complete

A thing is complete when every row of its own is done:

Complete says nothing about anything else, so a complete character in an empty world is still complete.

Playable

Playable means that a story could start, and only scenarios and worlds can be playable.

A scenario is playable when it is complete, its world is complete, and every one of its protagonists and its opening character, if it has one, is complete. A world is playable when at least one of its scenarios is.

The server decides this, and the app shows the answer: an Unplayable chip on the card, and on your own world's page Finalize world in place of Play.

Why a complete world still cannot be played

You can finish a world entirely, with every field, a good definition and an image, and it still will not be playable, because there is nothing in it to play. You need at least one playable scenario, and the scenario needs complete characters, which is why a world's list has seven rows while the wizard has six screens.

Places never appear

A place cannot block a story, so it is never on a world's or a scenario's list. Its own list is Path to completeness.

When something stops being playable

Once a field has something in it, the app will not let you empty it, so this mostly happens through deleting. If you delete a character, every scenario that had it as a protagonist or as the opening character loses it, and the opening message goes with it.