How to Use This Guide
Note
This Player Guide is a work in progress. Further chapters will added as they are written.
This guide is designed to help you get started with Alter Ego as a player. We wrote this guide in a casual, conversational tone to ease new players like you into Alter Ego. It contains many images and examples to make it easy for you to follow along. We hope that you will find this guide helpful as you embark on your journey in mastering how to play Alter Ego!
As Alter Ego is a game that is entirely played on Discord, this guide assumes that you are familiar with using it. If you are unfamiliar with Discord, please refer to the Beginner’s Guide to Discord first before proceeding.
Navigating This Guide
We designed this guide to be read from start to finish, with new concepts being introduced gradually as you progress.
To go to the next chapter, either click / tap the > button on the side (or the bottom on mobile) or use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard.
If you want to skip ahead or go back to a page, there is a table of contents on the side of the page (or under the hamburger menu on the top left on mobile). This guide is listed under the Player Guide heading there.
If you clicked on a link and don’t know where you are, press the back button on your browser to return to the page you were just on.
We recommend reading this guide first before delving into the rest of the documentation.
For Moderators
If you are introducing your players to Alter Ego for the first time, please link them to this page instead of the home page, as the home page leads directly into moderator documentation.
It would also be useful to read this guide yourself to get on the same page as your players.
Typographic Conventions
For clarity, we use the following typographic conventions in this guide to make different concepts in this guide more distinct and easier to understand.
Admonitions
Admonitions are used when presenting concepts that require your attention. They come in several forms in order of ascending importance:
Tip
This denotes useful tips and tricks that can help you.
Note
This denotes things you should pay attention to.
Important
This denotes important things you should not miss.
Warning
This denotes things that may cause harm if not handled properly.
Caution
This denotes things that will cause harm if ignored.
Commands
When a command is shown for demonstrative purposes, they are presented enclosed in code blocks:
.inspect armchair
A screenshot of the output of the command (what you see in Discord after a command is received by Alter Ego) is included immediately following its invocation. This is so that you can see what the command does as if you sent it yourself.
Footnotes
Footnotes are used to provide additional context or information about a term or concept.1
Key Words and Emphasis
Key words are important terms and concepts that we will go over in this guide. The first time they’re used, they are presented in bold. Some important concepts are also put in bold for emphasis.
Literals
Literals are text that is quoted from somewhere else unmodified. This is to show that the text is situated in its own
context and not meant to be read as just part of the sentence. They are presented enclosed by inline code blocks.
For instance, a name of an in-game item such as COFFEE TABLE or a command with its prefix such as .use are
presented as literals.
Names
When the name of a data structure2 that has an ordinary meaning is mentioned, it is presented in italics. This is to distinguish it from the word’s meaning in everyday language.
For instance, this is the inspect command and this is a puzzle. We inspect things to help us solve puzzles.
It’s not necessary to go to one of those pages as they can get really technical, but a link to it is provided for it the first time it is mentioned in a chapter for your curiosity.