Spoilers on the World Page
Show readers that the story changes, and choose how much of it they see.
When phases give a main character new looks or bring new people into the world, the world page can show it before anyone plays: a child who could grow into six different adults, the strangers who arrive later. Spoilers decides, for each look and each newcomer, whether readers see it, only glimpse it, or never hear of it.
What the world page shows
Who … becomes
Under the cast, a section named after the main character, such as Who Theo becomes, lays out their looks in columns, one per phase where new looks appear. When a column holds several looks, it counts them as roads: each is the look on one path through the story. The column takes the name the looks share, such as Age 8 or Age 12–13, or the phase number.
The character's card says how many looks they have. Moving the mouse across the card leafs through them.
Joins later
The Joins later row shows the entities a phase brings into the world, each with the phase they first join at, such as Phase 2. A line above it sums them up: "9 characters, a faction and a myth join as the story moves."
In the character window
Picking a look on the page opens the character window at that look. In the window's Looks row, picking a look shows it and marks in gold the phases on the Story Path where the character wears it; the path moves to show them.
Choose what to reveal
- Open Landing & Gallery.
- Select Spoilers in the toolbar. On a phone, it is in the … menu.
- Under each main character's looks, click a look to step it through Shown, Teaser, and Hidden, or use All shown, All teaser, or All hidden.
- Under Joins later, pick a level for each entity, or turn off Show the row.
The page beside the panel is the preview: every choice shows there at once. Save as usual; the published page changes when you publish again.
| Level | A look | An entity that joins later |
|---|---|---|
| Shown | Its picture and name | Their picture and name, with the phase they join at |
| Teaser | A blurred picture, no name | A blurred card with the phase they join at, never their name |
| Hidden | Left off the page | Only counted, in a "+N kept secret" card |
Defaults
- New looks start as Shown: you drew them to be seen, and watching a hero grow is a reason to play.
- Entities that join later start as Teaser: readers learn that someone arrives, and when, but not who.
- The character as written is always shown. It is their card on the page.
- Phase names stay hidden whatever you choose.
What counts as a look
A look is a variant with its own picture that a phase switches a main character to. A variant that only changes words keeps the picture the character already wears, so it adds no look. A variant no phase switches to never reaches the page.
Teasers keep their pictures secret
A teaser never sends its real picture to the page. When you publish, Dai Novel keeps a copy only a few pixels wide, enough for its colors, and the page blurs it further. Your own preview in the editor uses the real picture, blurred the same way.
Worlds published before Spoilers existed show their teasers as blank cards until you publish again.
Tips
- Show the looks that make readers curious, such as a child at different ages, and tease the ones that give away a twist.
- Tease the people a reader should look forward to. Hide the ones whose existence is the surprise.
- If a newcomer belongs on the landing page by name, choose Shown, or bring them into the world from the start.
See Phase Changes and the Phase Lens for making variants and holding entities back, and Presentation and Publishing for the rest of the world page.