Basic Gameplay

You can advance through the text by left-clicking anywhere or pressing the space bar. If the text speed is set to the maximum in the options menu, the text appears instantly. If the text speed is set lower, you can click to instantly fill the text box without waiting.

You can use the scroll-wheel on your mouse to go back through previous text boxes, and can even use this to alter choices you've made.

At any time, you can choose to skip parts of the date that you've seen by clicking on the fast forward button in the lower right corner of the screen. By default it will only skip until you reach a choice or a text box you haven't yet seen, but this can be changed in the options menu.

When you're prompted to make a choice for Fluttershy, you can left-click on the buttons or select them with your arrow keys and press enter to choose.

Lastly, don't worry! There are no bad endings. All love has a little conflict, and this date is no exception, but you can't "lose" the date. You can't ruin the date by making the wrong choices.

Game Menu

During play, you can click on the disk icon in the lower right corner to bring up the game menu. This menu can also be accessed by right clicking or pressing escape. The menu offers the following choices:

Return

Resumes the game exactly where you left off.

Save Game

Allows you to save your game so you can return to it later.

Load Game

Allows you to load a previously saved game, including autosaves.

Options:

Display

Switches between fullscreen and windowed mode. The window is 800 x 600 by default.

Transitions

Allows you to turn off the normal transitions that are used when the game changes from one scene to another.

Text Speed

Allows you to control how fast the text appears on the screen. If it's set to maximum, the text will display instantly.

Joystick

Lets you control the game using a joystick.

Skip

Allows you to skip all text instead of just text you've seen on previous playthroughs.

Begin Skipping

Resumes the game while skipping.

After Choices

Determines whether skipping continues after you make a choice.

Sound Volume

Controls the volume of sound effects.

Main Menu

Ends the current game and returns to the main menu.

Quit

Exits the game.

Key and Mouse Bindings

Left-click, Enter

Advances through the text and makes choices.

Space

Advances through the game, but does not make choices.

Arrow Keys

Selects between choices.

Ctrl

Turns on skipping as long as it's held down.

Tab

Toggles skipping.

Mousewheel-Up, PageUp

Scrolls backward through prior text boxes and choices.

Mousewheel-Down, PageDown

Scrolls forward through text boxes up to the point where you started scrolling back.

Right-click, Escape

Opens the menu. When in the menu, it resumes the game.

Middle-click, H

Hides the text window and any menu currently on the screen, showing only the background and characters.

F

Toggles between windowed and fullscreen mode.

S

Takes a screenshot, saved to the game's base directory.

Alt-F4, Command-Q

Exits the game.

Delete

Deletes selected 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 text and makes choices.

Guide, Start

Opens the menu. When in the menu, it resumes the game.

Directional Pad, Analog Sticks

Selects between choices.

Left Trigger, Left Shoulder, Back

Scrolls backward through prior text boxes and choices.

Right Shoulder

Scrolls forward through text boxes up to the point where you started scrolling back.

Y (Top Button)

Hides the text window and any menu currently on the screen, showing only the background and characters.

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.

About

I'm Robin Daydream, an artist and writer and real life pony, and if you're interested in my pony shipping styles, you can find more of my work at howdoponieswork on tumblr. This is my first visual novel, which I made to get some practice with Ren'Py, and I hope you enjoy it!

The font used in the game is Si Kancil. All sounds were made by me using sfxr.

This game is dedicated to my partners Eli and Scott, who taught me everything I know about love.