Welcomes have been touched on in other threads, but I felt it needed it own thread.
It was great to have met so many of you during yesterdays testing! It got a little overwhelming at times in the Help Chat pane, but it was definitely fun! It was hard at times not to ruin the "spirit of exploring" for a new player and give too much away as to how to do / make / find something in-game.
A few things I noticed that was common for many of the Faunasphere players, and this may help:
* Most things in Glitch are easiest to do using the keyboard and NOT the mouse - it seemed when you were using the mouse, the playing window "lost its focus" for you and needed to be clicked within to bring it back into focus. See alpha.glitch.com/help/ for some keyboard shortcuts.
* Use the mini-map in the upper right corner of the screen to help guide you around - you can map routes to your destination, plus see vendor info, etc. listed - it will not teleport you to your destination;
* When an item is visible in either your main storage slots or in an open Storage Bag along the bottom of your screen, click on it to see if it has additional interaction possibilities;
* Also - use The Rock - it's right in the middle top of the screen - it is your "familiar" to help keep track of stuff;
* Joining a Group here on the website has the effect of creating a separate Chat pane in-game; A dedicated FS Group was established by some FS players yesterday here: alpha.glitch.com/groups/RTJ...
* You can change your characters looks via the Vanity: alpha.glitch.com/vanity/ and the Wardrobe: alpha.glitch.com/wardrobe/ (Both of which can be done even when the game is closed);
* If something is not behaving the way you expected it to, the easiest fix in some cases is to simply refresh your browsers page; If your character gets "stuck," try clicking in the window to bring it back into focus or by simply jumping with the spacebar (works great when it seems your character just keeps walking on its own);
* You can't really break anything in-game, so click on / try to combine / interact with everything;
* There no stupid questions - so ask away! I learned a lot when I first started by simply watching the Help Chat pane and questions asked and answers given there;
* Other great resources are the Encyclopedia here ( alpha.glitch.com/encyclopedia/ ), and the unofficial (but sanctioned) game wiki set up and run by alpha testers here: www.glitch-strategy.com/wik... ;
* On Twitter, follow @playglitch and @isglitchopen ; On Facebook, "like" www.facebook.com/playglitch ;
* Also check out the official blog at glitch.com/ - some valuable info can be gleaned there;
Again, welcome to the Glitch community!