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:

Options

Return
Returns to the game/main menu.
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):
Skip
Chooses between skipping messages that have been already seen (in any play through the game), and skipping all messages.
After Choices
Controls if skipping stops upon reaching a menu.
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
Navigates between 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.

Controller Support and Bindings

This game should automatically detect and use game controllers supported by SDL2. Other controllers can be configured using third-party configuration tools like the SDL2 Gampad Tool

A small number of systems may have problems using detected game controllers. Should that happen, hold down shift as the game starts, and disable the controller support.

The following bindings are used:

Right Trigger, A (Bottom Button)
Advances through the game, activates menu choices, buttons, and sliders.
Guide, Start
Enters the game menu. When in the game menu, returns to the game.
Directional Pad, Analog Sticks
Navigates between menu choices, buttons, and sliders.
Left Trigger, Left Shoulder, Back
Causes rollback to occur. Rollback reverses the game back in time, showing prior text and even allowing menu choices to be changed.
Right Shoulder
Causes rollforward to occur, canceling out a previous rollback.
Y (Top Button)
Hides the text window and other transient displays.

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.

Some images and sound are used through versions of creative commons licenses. Artwork and CG slides are created by Grey (Dark Grey Clouds) are not creative commons. They are copyright Dark Grey Clouds, 2016

Credits

Kai Engel, Walking Barefoot on Grass (Bonus)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Three__Warm/
Kai_Engel_-_Chapter_Three_-_Warm_-_09_Walking_Barefoot_on_Grass_Bonus
See more of Kai Engel's Music: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Shady Dave: A Good Day
https://www.freesound.org/people/ShadyDave/sounds/320554/

Shady Dave: Expressions of the Mind
https://www.freesound.org/people/ShadyDave/sounds/325647/
See more of Shady Dave's music: https://www.freesound.org/people/ShadyDave/

Sound FX:
Corsica S https://www.freesound.org/people/Corsica_S/sounds/337000/
Prosounder https://www.freesound.org/people/prosounder/sounds/32679/
neonaeon https://www.freesound.org/people/neonaeon/sounds/49477/

Image Credits:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuschwanstein_singer%27s_hall_00185u.jpg
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=51865&picture=&jazyk=PL
https://www.pexels.com/photo/sunset-skyline-sky-sea-30809/
https://static.pexels.com/photos/67211/field-away-summer-sky-67211.jpeg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/djwtwo/20965710415
https://pixabay.com/p-640655/?no_redirect
https://www.pexels.com/photo/sunset-dusk-twilight-sky-8993/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/16158233559

Music edited in Audacity