Scenes on a Phone

The web portal’s live scene page works on a phone as well as on a desktop. This page covers how a live scene looks on a phone, and how an unsent pose follows you from one device to another. To put the scene schedule in a calendar app, see Scenes in your calendar.

All of it comes with the Scene plugin. On a game without it, the portal shows no Scenes section at all.

A live scene on a phone

Open a running scene from Scenes, then Live now. On a screen narrower than a tablet, each pose is a card: the portrait, name and time sit above the text, so the text uses the whole width. Out-of-character lines keep their own colour band.

The box you write in is a sheet at the bottom of the screen. The IC and OOC buttons and the format menu sit in a row along its top, and the field sits beside a round Send button.

A live scene on a phone: each pose is a card with the name above the full-width text, and the composer is a sheet with IC and OOC along the top and a round Send button beside the field.

Typing with the on-screen keyboard

When the keyboard opens, the page shrinks to the part of the screen the keyboard leaves. The scene’s name stays at the top, the poses scroll in the middle, and the compose sheet sits directly on the keyboard. Nothing jumps when the keyboard opens or closes, so you do not lose your place in the scene.

The live scene page on a phone with the keyboard open (simulated in this picture): the scene's title in one line at the top, the last pose, and the compose sheet resting on the keyboard.

Your draft follows you

What you type into a live scene is saved as you type, both in the browser and on the server. Open the same scene on another device, as the same character, and the field holds the same text. You can start a pose on your phone on the bus and finish it at your desk.

The icon beside the format menu shows where the draft is:

Icon	Means
Cloud with a tick	Saved. Your other devices open this draft.
Cloud with an arrow	Saving. You typed in the last moment.
Cloud crossed out	Kept on this device only. The server could not be reached; the draft is sent when it can be.

A screen reader announces the same words: “Draft saved”, “Saving draft” and “Draft on this device only”.

When you send the pose, the draft empties on every device. A device that was open in the background empties the next time you switch back to it.

The phone after the pose was sent from the desktop: the new pose is the last card in the scene, and the field is empty again.

The same scene on a desktop browser, opened after typing on the phone: the field holds the pose that was started on the phone.

Each character has its own draft for each scene. A guest, or a character who cannot see the scene, keeps the draft in the browser only.