GENBA no Kizuna has been out for exactly a month now, so by now, a good number of people have already delved into our Mesozoic murder mystery and solved it. Some of you have even gone a step further and shared your feedback with us or reported the typos you’ve unfortunately stumbled across. And today, after having collected a good couple of those, and not having received any further reports in a while, we’ve decided to eliminate everything that’s been encountered thus far and uploaded a new build!

Typos aren’t the only thing that have been addressed in it, though. It was also brought to our attention that, even though there is a bar in the options menu to adjust the text speed for Auto Mode… there is actually no Auto Mode! Or at least no way to activate it…

• Auto Mode

As the name suggests, Auto Mode lets text appear automatically and flips through the textboxes for you, so you can just lean back and read without the constant need to click. By default, the Ren’Py visual novel engine doesn’t have a hotkey for it and so the only way to trigger it is by clicking on “Auto” in its default quick menu… which we had decided to remove for aesthetic reasons, very early on in development. And no one had ever missed it, not even during the whole beta test phase. Which is why we only realized now that we had accidentally removed its only means of activation…

So yeah, we want to deeply apologize to everyone who was confused by the options menu or frustrated by the absence of any way to activate Auto Mode. Now you can, however, as we have added our own hotkey for it: simply press A on your keyboard!

(You’ll also notice that we’ve decided to display all relevant hotkeys at the top of the options screen now.)

• Auto Mode Text Speed Adjustment

Please keep the following in mind, however, which could also be confusing to some: The bar to adjust the speed of Auto Mode works kinda backwards, which is also a weird little Ren’Py quirk. What we mean by that is that, if the bar is full (dragged all the way to the right), the text appears super slow, while it appears real fast if the bar is completely empty (dragged all the way to the left). Intuitively, you might think it’s the other way around, so we thought this also needed a bit of clarification.

Anyway, that about sums it up for the new build. Huge thanks to everyone who brought the above mentioned issues to our attention! It’s greatly appreciated!