[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":119},["ShallowReactive",2],{"guide-\u002Fguides\u002Fplaying-on-your-phone":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":110,"extension":111,"meta":112,"navigation":113,"order":114,"path":115,"seo":116,"stem":117,"__hash__":118},"guides\u002Fguides\u002Fplaying-on-your-phone.md","Playing on your phone",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":102},"minimark",[9,13,20,25,63,67,70,73,77,80,83,87,90,93],[10,11,12],"p",{},"It is the same game on a phone. Not a companion app, not a cut-down version:\nthe same world, the same character, the same everything, running in the browser\nyou already have.",[10,14,15,19],{},[16,17,18],"strong",{},"Hold it sideways."," The world is wide and there is no portrait mode, because a\ntall thin slice of an isometric town is not worth playing.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"the-controls","The controls",[26,27,28,35,41,51,57],"ul",{},[29,30,31,34],"li",{},[16,32,33],{},"Stick, bottom left."," Push it the way you want to walk. It matches the arrow\nkeys, not the screen, so north is north whatever you are holding.",[29,36,37,40],{},[16,38,39],{},"Attack button, bottom right."," Hold it down, the same as CTRL.",[29,42,43,46,47,50],{},[16,44,45],{},"Tap something"," to look at it. ",[16,48,49],{},"Tap it again"," to act on it. One tap never\ndoes something you did not mean, which matters when your thumb is covering a\nthird of the screen.",[29,52,53,56],{},[16,54,55],{},"Hold your thumb on somebody"," to open their menu. That is the right click a\ntouch screen does not have, and it works on people, on guards and on the\nguildmaster.",[29,58,59,62],{},[16,60,61],{},"Pinch"," to zoom in and out. It stays where you put it next time you play.",[21,64,66],{"id":65},"the-panels","The panels",[10,68,69],{},"Everything is where it is on a desktop, laid out for a screen you are holding\nrather than sitting in front of. Panels give up their decoration before they give\nup their contents, so the list you actually came for is the part that survives.",[10,71,72],{},"The action bar shows fewer slots at once and more pages of them. Nothing is\nmissing: you have exactly as many skills bound as you would on a laptop, just\nspread across more pages. The set control beside the bar moves between them.",[21,74,76],{"id":75},"make-it-open-like-an-app","Make it open like an app",[10,78,79],{},"Add it to your home screen and it opens fullscreen, sideways, with no browser\naround it and no address bar eating your view. There is no store, no download and\nno install to sit through.",[10,81,82],{},"On iPhone that is Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android it is the browser\nmenu, then Install or Add to Home Screen.",[21,84,86],{"id":85},"one-thing-to-expect","One thing to expect",[10,88,89],{},"The world is on a server somewhere, so this needs a connection. There is no\noffline mode and there is not going to be one: a game that made up an answer\nwhile you were on the underground would be lying to you about where everybody\nelse is.",[10,91,92],{},"If the signal drops you will need to sign back in, and your character will be\nstanding exactly where you left them.",[10,94,95,96,101],{},"Next: ",[97,98,100],"a",{"href":99},"\u002Fguides\u002Fgetting-started","getting started",", if you have not made a\ncharacter yet.",{"title":103,"searchDepth":104,"depth":104,"links":105},"",2,[106,107,108,109],{"id":23,"depth":104,"text":24},{"id":65,"depth":104,"text":66},{"id":75,"depth":104,"text":76},{"id":85,"depth":104,"text":86},"Hold it sideways. Here is where everything is, and how to make it open like an app.","md",{},true,8,"\u002Fguides\u002Fplaying-on-your-phone",{"title":5,"description":110},"guides\u002Fplaying-on-your-phone","njzU3PvzLbTFzQEXywpqTd7GR2av55QM0luWYMX2tvc",1789103095505]