How to schedule opening and closing dates for a game or content Block?

Fastory lets you schedule the opening and closing of your experience in advance. You set a start date and time and an end date and time, and your game or content opens and closes automatically, with no manual action needed on your part.

Scheduling lets you control the lifespan of your experience down to the minute. Instead of publishing and unpublishing your game by hand, you let the Studio do it for you.

In practice, it helps you:

Set up the schedule directly in the Studio, then publish your experience to activate it.

Once these steps are complete, participants can access your game from the opening date you selected until the closing date. For a detailed guide on this last step, see How to publish my mobile experience?

The closing message replaces the Start button of your experience. After the end date, your visitors will see it instead of the usual button.

It automatically uses the button style defined in your theme, which keeps its appearance consistent with the rest of your experience. Take the opportunity to write a clear text that says the game is over and, if needed, invites visitors to come back later.

You can delete a saved date and time at any time using the date picker:

In addition to scheduling, you can display a countdown to generate virality and anticipation around your campaign. To learn how to set it up, see How to display a countdown on my experience?

You can also schedule the display of one or more screens of your experience, to adjust what participants see depending on the moment. The details are explained in How to show or hide a screen of my experience?

Fill in the opening date and time as well as the closing date and time. Your contest becomes accessible at launch and automatically stops accepting entries at the deadline.

Schedule your opening date, then add a countdown. Visitors see the time remaining before they can participate, which keeps the excitement going around your campaign.

Enter a closing date and time that matches the end of your event. After that moment, your closing message is displayed instead of the Start button.

Yes. The schedule applies once you publish your experience from the Publish tab. After each change to the dates, republish so the changes take effect.

The closing message you wrote is displayed instead of the Start button. Your visitors understand that the entry period is over.

Yes. Each date is managed independently: you can clear one of them using the date picker by clicking the calendar and then clear, and keep only the one you need.

Because your entire schedule is based on this time zone. It determines the actual time your game opens and closes for participants.

Yes. In addition to scheduling, Fastory lets you add a countdown to generate virality and anticipation around your campaign.

The message automatically uses the button style defined in the theme of your Fastory experience. It matches the design of your game with no extra configuration.