Joining a show

This page is for players. Your host sent you a link; this is what's on the other side of it.

You don't install anything and you don't need an account. The link opens in a browser and that's the whole setup. A laptop, a Mac, a phone or a tablet all work.

Opening the link#

1. Open the link your host sent you.
2. Type a name. This is what your host sees beside your picture, so use something they'll recognise.
3. Allow your camera when the browser asks.

That's it. Your camera goes to your host, they take a still of your face, and that face becomes your character in the show.

If the room isn't open yet#

You'll see "Your host hasn't started the stream yet." Nothing's wrong — you're early. Check with them and open the link again.

Waiting costs your host nothing. You aren't connected yet, so no time is being used up while you sit there.

What your camera is actually doing#

Your microphone is never opened. The page asks for your camera and only your camera, even though most webcams are one device with a mic attached. Talking happens wherever your group normally talks — usually Discord — and this page has nothing to do with it.

Your face is a still, not a video. Your host presses a button that takes one picture, and that picture becomes your bobblehead. Your character isn't a live video window of you.

That's why you can scratch your nose without it appearing on stream, and why your host may ask you to sit still for a moment and then never mention it again.

They can retake it any time. If you change hats or move a lamp and the picture stops looking like you, ask.

Picture quality#

Once you're live there's a control for how much of your camera is sent. Smaller uses less of your connection; bigger looks better.

Your host can set this for everybody, and if they do, theirs wins. A table where one person's connection is struggling is a table where the host turns everyone down a notch, and that's normal.

If you have more than one camera — a laptop lid and a proper webcam, say — there's a picker. It only fills in after you've allowed access, because browsers don't tell a page what your cameras are called until you do.

Moving your own character#

You can, and it's on by default. Nobody has to switch it on for you.

You'll see the scene with a grid over it. Tap where you want to go and your character walks there. There's also a set of buttons for things your character can do in that scene — what's on the list depends on the scene your host loaded.

If a button is greyed out it stays visible, with the reason. Nothing disappears from the list just because you can't use it right now.

"Your host has locked your controls"#

If you see that, your host has taken movement off you for the moment. Your camera is untouched — the lock never turns your camera off, and it can't. Ask them.

Making an account (optional)#

Once you're live you'll be offered one. It's genuinely optional, and it does one thing worth having: your name stays the same between shows instead of being whatever you typed that evening.

Everything else on this page works without one.

If you're removed#

There are two different things, and the page tells you which:

Troubleshooting#

My host says they can't see my camera#

Your row shows up for them either way, so a row with no picture means you're in the room but the camera isn't shared. Reload the link and accept the camera prompt — it's easy to dismiss by accident.

I dismissed the camera prompt and it won't ask again#

Browsers only ask once per site. There's a small camera icon in the address bar — click it and allow, then reload.

The wrong camera is being used#

Once you're live there's a picker. Choose the one you want; the other is released when you switch.

My picture is frozen#

It's meant to be. Your host captured a still of your face and that still is your character. See above.

Nothing happens when I tap the map#

If it says your host has locked your controls, that's why. If it doesn't, the scene may have no ground to walk on — some scenes are journeys rather than places — and the page will say so.

I got disconnected#

Open the link again. Your host doesn't have to do anything, and if they'd already captured your face they usually don't have to recapture it.