Yipe! 5 - Help for Playing Yipe! 5
Movement and Keyboard Commands
While you can use your mouse or touch the screen if your device supports it, we find it easiest to play Yipe with your keyboard. Which means there are keyboard shortcuts for just about everything you need in the game. Here's an overview of what works:
Movement: You can use w, a, s, d or the arrow keys. Or if you really like your mouse, you can click in anywhere in the world grid to attempt to move in that general direction. There is no diagonal movement in Yipe.
x: While walking around the world this will search the tile you're currently standing on. There are a few random and secret things to find as you search various tiles in the game, some more obvious than others.
t: To open up the Stats Window. To close the Stats Window, hit the esc key or press the close button.
i: To open up the Items Window. To close the Itmes Window, hit the esc key or press the close button.
h: The H key will bring you to... wait, you're already here! The one nice extra about the help button (or keyboard shortcut) is that it might give you a bit more help specific to your situation in the game.
esc: The esc key will close out most any window you open up. Stats window, your items window, to leave a shop or even to end combat and get back to adventuring.
Combat:
Attacking: To attack, you can click on the attack button or press the space key or return key. Optionally, using the game settings, you can allow your movement keys to be used to attack. This is a great way to attack quickly. The risk is if you run into a hard monster and immediately start attacking.
Run: Need to run away??? Hit the esc or r key. Keep in mind that monsters might make a swing at you as you try to run away.
Attack Focus: If there are multiple monsters in combat, you can select which monster you are focused on for attacking via clicking on that monster. All actions (using special power or attacking) will aim at that selected monster until it dies. By default, you'll attack the monsters from left to right.
Special: Press the p key to initiate your special attack.
Items: Press the i key to open up your items window while you're in combat.
Leaving combat: esc, return or space will get you out of the combat window when done fighting. The Space key and Return key have a bit of a delay in them so that you don't accidently leave combat immediately when using those keys to attack.
Shops:
Selecting Items: Use the up and down arrow keys to select an item. Or click on an item. You can also hit a number 1 - 9, to select that specific row in the list of items available in the shop. Wow, that's a lot of ways to select an item to buy!
Buy an item: Ready to make a purchase? Press the Space Key or the B key. Don't worry, it won't let you buy a weapon or armor that's equal to or worse than the one you've got.
Leave: That handy esc key.
Stats:
We love stats in the world of Yipe! There's quite a few screens there already and you should flip through all of these to see what's there. More detail here.
Navigation: You can use the left and right arrow keys to flip through the various stats screens.
Stats -- Quests Screen: When you land on the stats page with your list of active quests, you can use the up and down arrows to navigate the list of active quests.
Exit Stats: That handy esc key.
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