HealingMatgo ☰ menu settings guide: changing sound effects, voice, card speed and speech bubbles

Was the game sound too loud, or did the cards move so fast they made you dizzy? In HealingMatgo, you can change the sound, speed and flashy effects to your taste in ‘Settings’ in the ☰ menu at the top left. There are nine settings in all, and they change as soon as you tap them. Let’s go through them one by one.

1. How to open the menu

Tap the three horizontal lines (☰) at the very top left, and a ‘Menu’ window opens in the middle of the board. The left column is Settings; the right column is My info and Help. To close it, tap ☰ again, press Esc on the keyboard, or click an empty spot outside the menu.

The left ‘Settings’ column has the nine settings, and their current values (On, Off, Normal) are shown on the right. The right column is My info and Help. (Screenshot shows the Korean interface.)

2. The 9 settings at a glance

3. The 3 sound settings

① Sound effects

Turns all sound effects on or off, such as the sound of playing a card and the effect sounds at the end of a round. If you’re playing somewhere quiet or the sound bothers you, leave it ‘Off’.

② Voice

These are the voices of the opponent character and your own character saying things like ‘Go!’ and ‘Stop!’. If you turn it off, the characters make no voice sounds.

③ Fun voice

These are funny alternate lines that play depending on the situation. If you turn this off, only the basic voices play. This setting stays as it is even after you close and reopen the game.

4. Card speed — Fast · Normal · Slow

Each time you tap the ‘Card speed’ line, it cycles in the order Fast → Normal → Slow. The starting (default) value is ‘Normal’.

• Fast — cards zip around. For people who want rounds to move quickly.
• Normal — the default.
• Slow — cards move slowly. Good if you want to see clearly how the cards are laid out.

If you’re new to Hwatu, or the cards are too fast to follow, we recommend ‘Slow’.

5. Simple mode (effects off)

HealingMatgo shows flashy effects at moments like Jjok, Ppeok and Go: sparkling dust, light, and a red pulse at the edge of the screen. If you set Simple mode to ‘On’, these effects are turned off and the screen becomes calmer. Try it if your eyes tire easily or the screen feels too flashy.

6. Share icon sparkle

The share icon at the right of the title bar (three dots joined by lines) sparkles now and then, gently nudging you to share the game with a friend. If the sparkle bothers you, set it to ‘Off’. You can still tap the icon to share with a friend as usual.

The sparkle follows these rules.

• It starts to appear 5 minutes after you log in.
• It sparkles at intervals of 8 to 12 minutes, up to 6 times a day.
• If you tap the icon once that day, it doesn’t sparkle any more that day.
• Right after a win, it may sparkle one more time.

7. Opponent chat settings…

This item isn’t an on/off switch; tapping it takes you to the ‘Opponent chat settings’ window. Here you can turn on or off the opponent’s speech bubbles and emotion effects, how often bubbles appear, commentary, how talkative the opponent is, feature-tip bubbles, the feature that remembers you, and self-learning phrases. All of them start as ‘On’. Tapping ‘← Back to menu’ at the top of the window takes you back to the main menu. Each item is explained separately in the article about chatting with your opponent.

The ‘Opponent chat settings’ window. (Screenshot shows the Korean interface.)

8. View on website after registering record

When a round ends, your record goes up to the server and your record post is created on the website, the game shows that post in a small app window. The value starts as ‘On’. This window attaches to the right column of the game screen (where the ticker board and the Hall of Legends are) and moves along when you move the game window. So that it doesn’t pop up suddenly during play, it appears only during the break after a round, when the start button is visible. If you don’t like windows popping up, change it to ‘Off’. For the conditions for a record to go up, see the Hall of Legends article.

9. Open info page on exit

This setting opens a HealingMatgo info page in a new tab of your web browser when you quit the game. It starts as ‘On’. It opens only when you’re connected to the internet, and it’s skipped if you aren’t. It never makes the game wait before closing. If you don’t need it, change it to ‘Off’.

10. Recommended combinations

The rest of the menu items (My info, profile export/import, Help, replaying the guide, and so on) are explained in the ☰ My info, Help and Quit article.