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+
Basic Help
+
+ To advance through the game, left-click or press the space
+ or enter keys. When at a menu, left-click to make
+ a choice, or use the arrow keys to select a choice and enter
+ to activate it.
+
+
+ Game Menu
+
+ When playing a game, right-click or press the escape
+ key to enter the game menu. The game menu gives the following
+ choices:
+
+
+ - Return
+ - Returns to the game.
+ - Save Game
+ - Allows you to save a game by clicking on a save slot.
+ - Load Game
+ - Allows you to load a game by clicking on a save slot.
+ Clicking on "Auto" accesses the automatic save slots.
+ - Preferences
+ -
+ Changes the game preferences (options/configuration):
+
+ - Display
+ - Switches between fullscreen and windowed mode.
+ - Transitions
+ - Controls the display of transitions between game
+ screens.
+ - Text Speed
+ - Controls the rate at which text displays. The further
+ to the right this slider is, the faster the text will display.
+ All the way to the right causes text to be shown instantly.
+ - Joystick
+ - Lets you control the game using a joystick.
+ - Skip
+ - Chooses between skipping messages that have been
+ already seen (in any play through the game), and skipping all
+ messages.
+ - Begin Skipping
+ - Returns to the game, while skipping.
+ - After Choices
+ - Controls if skipping stops upon reaching a menu.
+ - Auto-Forward Time
+ - Controls automatic advance. The further to the left
+ this slider is, the shorter the amount of time before the game
+ advances. All the way to the right means text will never
+ auto-forward.
+ - Music, Sound, and Voice Volume
+ - Controls the volume of the Music, Sound effect, and
+ Voice channels, respectively. The further to the right these
+ are, the louder the volume.
+
+
+
+
+ - Main Menu
+ - Returns to the main menu, ending the current game.
+ - Help
+ - Shows this help screen.
+ - Quit
+ - Exits the game; the game will be closed and ended.
+
+
+ Key and Mouse Bindings
+
+ - Left-click, Enter
+ - Advances through the game, activates menu choices, buttons,
+ and sliders.
+ - Space
+ - Advances through the game, but does not activate choices.
+ - Arrow Keys
+ - Selects menu choices, buttons, and sliders.
+ - Ctrl
+ - Causes skipping to occur while the ctrl key is held down.
+ - Tab
+ - Toggles skipping, causing it to occur until tab is pressed
+ again.
+ - Mousewheel-Up, PageUp
+ - Causes rollback to occur. Rollback reverses the game back
+ in time, showing prior text and even allowing menu choices to be
+ changed.
+ - Mousewheel-Down, PageDown
+ - Causes rollforward to occur, canceling out a previous
+ rollback.
+ - Right-click, Escape
+ - Enters the game menu. When in the game menu, returns to the
+ game.
+ - Middle-click, H
+ - Hides the text window and other transient displays.
+ - F
+ - Toggles fullscreen mode
+ - S
+ - Takes a screenshot, saving it in a file named
+ screenshotxxxx.png, where xxxx is a serial number.
+ - Alt-M, Command-H
+ - Hides (iconifies) the window.
+ - Alt-F4, Command-Q
+ - Quits the game.
+ - Delete
+ - When a save slot is selected, deletes that save slot.
+ - v
+ -
+ Toggles self-voicing mode, which reads text to the user using an
+ os-supplied speech synthesizer. For more information, please read
+ the self-voicing
+ documentation.
+
+ - Shift+C
+ - Toggles clipboard-voicing mode, which copies text to the
+ clipboard so it can be read by a screen reader.
+
+
+ Legal Notice
+
+ This program contains free software licensed under a number of
+ licenses, including the GNU Lesser Public License. A complete list
+ of software is available at http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/license.html.
+