Controls

Which devices you can play with, how to move and dash with them, and what can be rebound

Devices

All controls are set in Settings → Controls, one group per device

The mouse alone is enough: the left button steers, Dash Button dashes. The keyboard is optional

Gamepad buttons are bound by position, not by symbol. A binding survives switching to a pad of another brand

Steering modes

Movement is instant in every mode: no acceleration and no slide

In the cursor modes the avatar chases the cursor at its own walking speed. So it lags behind a fast mouse. A dash goes to the cursor. If the cursor is close, the dash is shorter and stops exactly on it

In Direction a stick pushed halfway gives half speed. A dash always goes its full length

On a touchscreen in Absolute the cursor sits above your finger (Finger Offset Y). That way the finger does not cover the avatar

The exact numbers - Avatar and movement

Rebinding

• Gameplay input is in Controls: the mode, Dash Keys, Dash Button, Dash Buttons, sensitivity, dead zone, smoothing, inversion, the on-screen joystick and dash button. Reset Controls returns every device to this platform's defaults
• Keyboard shortcuts are in Keybindings. Almost all of them are the editor's. Outside the editor there are Toggle Fullscreen (F11 by default) and the navigation keys. Reset Keybindings undoes every rebinding

While the game waits for a key, it says Press a key for "...". The rule then is Tap or Escape cancels, Backspace unbinds

For keybindings the game stores only what you rebound. If the developers improve a default binding later, it reaches you, unless you changed that binding yourself. The Controls tab is stored in full, so a later change of its defaults does not reach you

The editor's shortcuts - Speed and shortcuts

Several devices at once

One device steers the avatar - the one you used last. The switch happens by itself, on the same frame, with no menu

The game reads every active device every frame. An untouched gamepad reports zeroes, and that does not count as use

Priority decides who steers on the first frame and breaks ties. This matters, for example, on a laptop with a controller plugged in

A device can steer only when:

• it is ticked active
• the platform supports it
• it is connected right now

Active now at the top shows which one is steering

Selection set to Manual pins one device. If it disappears, the game says Selected control device (...) is unavailable - falling back and uses another