The onboarding wizard: from signup to your first environment
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Fibe has a vocabulary problem, and we knew it the day we shipped. A new player signs up and within thirty seconds must hold a half-dozen made-up nouns in their head: Marquees, Props, Playspecs, Playgrounds, Tricks, Crumbs, the Bridge. None mean what they mean anywhere else — you cannot Google "what is a Marquee" and get our answer. The first time someone lands in the app, the dashboard is empty and every label is a word they have never seen, on a concept they do not have.
You can solve that with documentation. We tried. Nobody reads it. So we built an onboarding wizard that walks a brand-new player from a blank account to one real, running environment — teaching the nouns by doing, not reading, and never sending them to a manual.