Playing a story

A moiki is read one sequence at a time. At each step a short text appears, sometimes with an image or a sound, and then it is up to you to decide what comes next. The reading happens in the browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone, and the display adapts to the screen.

Getting started

On a first read, you land on the title screen, with the name of the story and that of its author. Press the Play button at the bottom of the card to begin.

The title screen: the name of the story, its author, and the Play button.

If you have already started this story, that same screen offers to Resume rather than to play. See Resuming a game.

Moving through the story

A sequence often ends with choices. Each choice is a button. Click the one that tempts you and the story carries on in that direction.

A reading sequence: the text in the middle, the choices below, your gauges at the top.

When a passage has only one continuation, a single button invites you to carry on. A sequence can offer as many choices as the story calls for.

Note

Some choices are timed. A timer appears, and you have to decide before the countdown runs out. If time is up, the story takes the exit the author planned, often your first or your last choice. When nothing can be played at that moment, you stay on the sequence and keep control.

The countdown freezes as long as a window is open, whether it is your sheet, the settings, the statistics or the credits. Checking your inventory in the middle of a timed sequence costs you nothing.

Going back, and following your progress

At the bottom left, a curved arrow takes you back to the previous sequence, when the author has left going back possible. It disappears as soon as there is nothing left to undo. At the bottom right, if the author has turned the stats display on, a counter shows how many sequences you have been through, out of the story’s total.

The menu

All the player’s controls sit in one corner, at the bottom left. A button there opens the menu, which gathers the Statistics of your game, the Achievements of the story, the Settings, the media Credits, Restart and Leave. Each entry only appears if the story is concerned by it.

Restart asks for confirmation first, and lets you choose between Restart, which keeps your cumulative statistics, and Reset, which clears them.

Coming back later

Your progress is saved automatically. If you leave a story and return to it, you will be able to pick up where you stopped.