User Guide for v0.9 Help

Controls

YeOldeDink accepts standard keyboard input, as well as joystick/gamepad input using a standardised mapping. Touch input is also available from 0.91 as well.

Keyboard

  • CTRL - Attack, use item, confirm menu option or inventory selection, activate button in mouse mode.

  • Space - Talk/interact.

  • Enter - Display/close inventory.

  • Arrow keys - Move player, move mouse in mouse mode, select menu option, select inventory items.

  • Shift - Activate magic.

  • Tab - Run at 2x speed while held down, centre the mouse cursor on title screens.

  • Escape - Show menu (typically).

Keystroke combinations

  • Alt+D - Show or hide the debug interface.

  • Alt+C - Show or hide the DinkC/Lua consoles.

  • Alt+M - Halt the currently-playing MIDI.

  • Alt+U - Unfreeze the player sprite.

  • Alt+P - Pause/Resume

  • Alt+H - View collision overlay in debug mode.

  • Alt+Q - Exit.

  • Alt+Enter - Change between windowed and full-screen.

Mouse

The mouse is in use for approximately three seconds on the title screen for clicking on buttons. It may also be used for scrolling in choice menus, and for interacting with the debug interface.

Gamepad and Joystick

Releases from 0.6 include a standardised Xbox 360-style input that may also be used to control the debug interface. The debug interface should be switched off if not in use while using controller input, as it may interfere. On some controllers, A and B as well as X and Y will be swapped in terms of function.

  • A - Attack, use item, confirm menu option, activate button in mouse mode.

  • B - Talk/interact.

  • Y - Inventory.

  • X - Magic.

  • Start - Escape menu.

  • Back/Select - Map.

  • Left stick - Move player or mouse on title screens.

  • Directional buttons - Move.

  • Right shoulder/L1 - Speed up 2x.

  • Left Shoulder/L2 - Assignable to a key script

  • Left trigger/L2 - Magic.

  • Right trigger/R2 - Attack, use item.

  • L3 - Activate debug mode

  • R3 - Switch off debug mode

Dear ImGui Controls

Touch

From 0.91, the "Gamepad and Joystick" menu window is renamed "Gamepad and Touch" and will allow you to switch on a virtual joystick. This is activated by dragging from anywhere on the screen. Also available are swipe inputs which may be switched on separately.

You may need to switch off multitouch gestures in your operating system as they will almost definitely interfere.

Last modified: 26 May 2024
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