Settings

The most important settings are set on the first launch: the game opens a quick setup with language, volume, performance and effects by itself. A reset touches only settings, levels stay

The tabs

Menu Background picks what is visible behind the main menu buttons: a live arena where a bot dodges attacks, a field of rotating shapes, or nothing

Levels View picks how the level selection opens - a Grid of covers or a List of rows with descriptions. There are two of them: the one on the Interface tab is for the menu (Grid by default), the one on the Game Editor tab is for the editor (List by default). The button next to the search field still switches the view until you leave that screen

Quick Setup

Quick Setup, a button on the General tab above Open Game Folder, asks a few of the most important questions, one category per page. On the very first launch it opens by itself, before the tutorial offer. Each answer has a line about what it does. Pages can be opened in any order, Next only suggests the next one

The answer marked Default is what the game starts with on your device. A choice applies at once and is visible in the full settings. If your settings match no answer, none is highlighted and a line says so - these are your own settings, and a press replaces them

Folded sections

Long tabs are split into sections. What is changed often is open, fine tuning is folded: a section opens by its heading. The button next to the tab's reset folds or unfolds all sections at once

On the Controls tab only the device in your hands is open

Reset

Each tab has its own reset. Reset Settings To Default in Other resets all tabs at once

A reset touches only settings. Your levels stay

The version line

The settings screen has a version line. A click on it copies it

It looks like this: gv X, sv Y, mg Z, <Platform>, <Channel>, <Debug|Release>. This is the line to quote in a bug report, Help and bug reports

Graphics

Anti-aliasing. On PC the default is MSAA. A phone starts with no anti-aliasing. Every shape in the game is real geometry, and MSAA gives it clean edges without blurring on every platform

FXAA is for weak phones. It is one pass over the whole screen, and its cost is constant. The cost of MSAA grows when many transparent shapes are drawn on top of each other

TAA is deliberately not offered. It leaves a trail behind fast bullets, and its jitter interferes with the glitch effects

Framerate. The target framerate is set manually, not through vertical sync. That way a level's timing is the same on a 60 Hz and a 144 Hz screen. While VSync is on (PC only), the framerate cap does nothing

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Colliders Only Mode

A mode for practice, a folded section on the Graphics tab. With Enable Mode on, a level in play draws every hitbox as a flat fill of one colour on a plain background, and nothing else. Gone: the look of the shapes themselves, shapes with no collider, effects, texts, post-processing and the theme background. Unchanged: the music, collision, the camera and its shake, checkpoints, the interface and statistics - a run in this mode counts like any other. Your avatar is drawn as usual

The mode works only when playing levels. The editor, the sandbox and the menu background are drawn as usual

Both colours are folded under their own caption: unfold the one you need to get its colour wheel

Anonymous mode

Turned on in Other → Suppress game saves (anonymous mode)

While the mode is on, the game saves nothing of its own. settings.json, the global statistics and the level statistics stay on disk untouched. A changed setting still works until the game is closed

Work with levels is saved as usual: saving, exporting, importing, copying and deleting. The editor's autosave and backups work too, they have their own switch

The mode lasts until the game is closed and is not remembered anywhere

If you turn it off, the current settings are saved. Everything played during that time is discarded