Moves

A Move is a short, reusable timeline your characters perform: leap at the target, flip 360° on the way down, then dash on landing. You build it once in Database → Moves and any number of abilities can play it.

A Move has three kinds of block, and the editor colours them so you always know which is which:

• Travel (orange) — the server really moves the character: leap, dash, step

  back, blink or hold. Walls, cliffs and the map edge stop it exactly as they stop a walk, and every player sees the same landing spot.

• Look (blue, purple, green) — how it looks: the animation clip, a flip or

  spin, a fade, a squash, an effect, a sound, a camera shake. Drawn only; a look block can never change where or when the character lands.

• Markers (pink) — named moments. An ability fires other abilities at them:

  the slam at landed, a slash at a marker you name.

Make a Move#

1. Open Database → Moves. Your Moves are listed on the left, with search

   and select-all for deleting several at once.

2. Click + New for a blank Move, or pick a preset on the right (Hop, Flip,

   Leap slam, Dash through, Backflip retreat, Vanish strike, Whirlwind).

3. Fill in the Move section (below), then watch the Preview. The dashed orange line is the path the server will move the

   character along; the readout under it shows the time, the clip, the position, the height and the turn.

4. Edit the timeline:
   • Click a block to edit it in the inspector on the right.
   • Drag a block to move it; drag its right edge to stretch it.
   • Click an empty part of a row to move the playhead.
   • Travel, Animation, Spin, Fade, Squash, Effect / sound

     and Marker add a block at the playhead; Selected block below the timeline shows its fields.

   • With a block focused, ← and → move it 10 ms (Shift: 100 ms), Alt+← and

     Alt+→ stretch it, Delete removes it.

5. Check lists anything that would stop it saving without saving it.
6. Click Create (or Save). Duplicate starts a copy.

Preview on draws the Move on one of your own characters, exactly as the game draws them: a Character (its sprite, or the creator-pack look a new character of that template gets, every layer), a Mob or an NPC. It plays that character's real animation clips at its in-game size, facing the way it travels. A clip the character does not have plays its walk instead, and the readout under the preview says so. Characters, mobs and NPCs with no art are not listed; a project with none yet previews on a stand-in figure.

Play a Move from an ability#

1. Open the ability: Abilities → (pick one) → Costs & Effects.
2. + Add action → Play move.
3. Pick the Move.
4. Under Fire at markers, add one row per hit: the marker (landed for a

   slam) and the ability it casts. Give that ability an area (AoE) so it hits around you. Save.

The fired ability is cast from wherever you are at that moment, with you as the caster: your stats, your kills.

A spinning attack you can walk with#

The Whirlwind preset is a spin-to-win: a Walk freely step at 60% pace, the attack clip, a Spin of three turns and a marker on each turn (hit1, hit2, hit3).

1. Create a Move from the Whirlwind preset and save it.
2. Make the hit: a new ability with AoE Shape → Nova (a disc around the

   caster), a small radius, some damage, and no cost or cooldown of its own.

3. On the ability players cast, + Add action → Play move → Whirlwind, and

   under Fire at markers add hit1, hit2 and hit3, each casting the hit ability.

In game the player keeps walking with the arrow keys or a click while they spin, slowed, and each hit lands around wherever they are on that turn.

Play a Move from a map event#

Map event → (a page) → + Add command → Movement → Play Move.

Play a Move with an emote#

In the Move section, set Plays with the emote (Wave, Bow, Cheer…). When a player performs that emote, the Move plays instead of the plain emote pose — a victory backflip for Cheer. One Move per emote; saving a second is refused naming the first.

Play a Move while harvesting#

Resources → (a node) → Visuals → Move on each strike. The Move's look (a squash, a shake, a clip, an effect) plays on every blow. Its travel steps are ignored so the harvester stays at the node. It replaces the Harvest Animation's per-strike pose.

Travel steps#

Look blocks#

Move settings#

Markers#

start, landed and end are always there: landed is when the character comes down from its last leap or blink (the end of its last travel step when it has none). Add your own with + Marker: lower-case letters, digits and _.

Limits and gotchas#

• Up to 4 travel steps and 15 tiles of travel in one Move, and at most

  6 seconds long. The editor names anything over a limit under **Fix before saving**, and Save refuses it.

• A Move cannot be deleted while an ability or an event command still plays it;

  the error says which.

• The AI Copilot can list, read, edit and delete Moves; an edit goes through the

  same check as Save.

• A Play move action is refused (free) while the character cannot move —

  rooted, stunned or asleep — like a dash.

• Death, a map change, or a stun during a step that may be cut short ends the

  Move where the character stands, upright and fully visible.

• Everything here is behind the Moves flag (on by default). Off, Play move

  actions do nothing; Leap and Dash actions still work.

• A changed Move reaches a running game server when you publish, like any other

  content.