Keeper OS

The desktop behind the top-right button: your apps, every notification, settings and the site.

What it is

The button at the top right of the game opens the Keeper OS, a desktop of apps that floats over your aquarium. Your fish keep swimming underneath while it is open. At the top are quick buttons for full screen, sound, your account and settings.

Each app opens in its own window. On a computer you can drag, resize, minimise and maximise them; on a phone each one fills the screen. Escape, or the button again, takes you back to the water.

The apps

The apps sit in four groups. Someone visiting another aquarium, or looking at the showcase, sees only the ones that make sense there.

Your reef: My aquariums, the Reef Journal and Notifications.
Social: Friends, Community and News.
You: Account, Settings, Help and Shortcuts.
Fishies on the web: the front page, the wiki, the press page, Discord, Contact, Privacy and Terms.
My aquariums, the Reef Journal and News open the game’s own rooms, exactly as before.
The dock along the bottom keeps the apps you use most, and any window you have open.

One notification centre

Everything the game tells you lands in one list: care reports from your aquarium, visits and new followers, gifts to open, finished quests and achievements, a level reward waiting, and news from the team. New rows are marked, and opening the centre reads them.

Each row does what it says: Feed takes you to the hungry fish, Open opens the gift. Filter the list by care, gifts, social, shop or news, dismiss what you are done with, and turn this device’s notifications on or off at the foot.

Settings

Settings has five sections, and every option the game has lives in exactly one of them.

Sound: sound on or off, the music and effects levels, and the soundtrack.
Display: full screen, dock labels, the graphics engine, sale and change bubbles, the Next goal line and quest rail, shortcut hints, the keyboard shortcuts, and your language.
Notifications: this device, your other devices, Telegram and Discord.
Account: your account, Discord activity, the keepers you have blocked, and signing out.
Advanced: the version, where to report a bug, and tidying the desktop.

Keys

The bell and the gear beside it at the top right open Notifications and Settings straight over your aquarium, without the Keeper OS. The game’s own shortcuts still work: G opens the Keeper OS, N opens Notifications, O opens Settings and J opens the sound settings. Inside the desktop:

Ctrl K searches every app.
Alt 1 to 9 opens the apps in the dock.
Alt W closes a window, Alt M minimises it and Alt ↑ maximises it.
Escape goes back to the aquarium.

In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/keeper-os · Fishies 0.8.3

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