Themes, effects and device settings
Night and day
The default look is the arcane night theme. A parchment day theme follows the operating system's light or dark setting by default and can be pinned either way from Account settings. The desktop app's window frame and the Android app's own bars follow the same choice.
Interface scale
Also in Account settings: one slider that scales the whole interface. Useful on a television at an in-person table, or on a small laptop.
Motion and effects
- Reduced motion is read from the operating system. With it on, the springs, the sliding highlight, the dust and the topographic background all stand still, and painted effects are skipped.
- Low effects is the app's own switch, in Account settings: it rests the loops and skips the painted effect sheets while keeping simple motion. Android turns it on by itself on phones with less than 4 GB of memory.
- Painted battle maps in device settings turns the terrain painting off and keeps the drawn board, which is lighter on an old phone.
- 3D dice in the dice menu turns the tumbling dice off.
Device settings: audio and dice
One panel holds everything that belongs to the device you are on rather than your account. It opens from the voice dock, from the table, and from Audio and dice in the app's Settings, and every change applies live.
| Group | Settings |
|---|---|
| Recording | Microphone device, recording level (a gain stage) with a live meter and a test, open mic or push to talk. |
| Playback | Output device with a test tone, and the voice chat, narration and ambience levels and switches. |
| Dice | The 3D switch, your dice look, the source per die shape (app, typed, Pixels), shake to roll on a phone or tablet. |
The app's own Settings screen
The app's Settings screen, from the title screen or from App settings in the account menu inside a world, holds: Audio and dice (the panel above), Steam Deck and controllers on Linux, This app (the version and updates), This computer or This device (Story AI, your account in the world, sharing online and, on a desktop, on this Wi-Fi), Story memory on a desktop (English, or many languages), Visiting hosts (how older servers are drawn), Title screen (hiding the save slots of offline hosts), Help (the user guide and the tour replay), and links to this guide and the legal pages. Inside a world it opens as an overlay so a call keeps running. The account menu inside a world also carries App home, the App guide and About, which shows the server's exact version and whether a newer release is out.
Steam Deck and controllers
The Linux app recognises a Steam Deck, inside a Flatpak too. In Game Mode it starts full screen and in Desktop Mode maximised, with a title screen that fits 1280 by 800 and Steam-style button hints along the foot. Settings has Auto, On and Off, and the launch options --steam-deck and --no-steam-deck decide for one shortcut. Controllers work on every screen with the standard mapping (Steam Input, Xbox, PlayStation): the D-pad or left stick moves a gold highlight, A presses and opens Steam's keyboard on a text box, B backs out, X jumps to the message box at the table, L1 holds voice chat's push to talk, R1 holds the talk-to-the-DM button, and the triggers and right stick scroll.
