Little Known Tricks in Renpy Games

Here are some tips and tricks when playing Renpy based games.  These should work on any Renpy game, but older games might not have these features, and some game makers will do odd things with their code that break these.

V - Voice

If you press the V key, your computer's voice reader will read the game for you.  I use this on my games as a way of spell checking, because misspelled words get read by the computer funny. 

H - Hide interface

If you want to do a picture grab, but the interface is getting in the way, pressing the H key will only show the picture part.

Tab - Skip past stuff you have already seen way too many times.

Pressing Tab toggles on and off the auto skip feature.  You can tell it to stop at choices, or have it use the last choices.  The "Skip" button on the bottom menu does this, too.

Load A - Auto Saves

Ever make a bad choice and and you haven't saved the game in a while and loath to go back to your last save?  Got to Preferences > Load > and click the letter A.  It shows auto saves of the last 6 choices made in the game, so it is easy to go back to a bad choice and make it a good one, as long as it was less than 6 choices ago.

The "History" button.

This displays all the text in the game so far, including choices made.  This is a good way to review dialogue without having to scroll back.

The "Auto" button.

Probably my favorite feature, and I hate playing games that have it disabled.  Auto basically lets you read the story without having to click from screen to screen.  It's time spent on each screen is based on the number of letters, and this can be adjusted in preferences if it is set too fast or slow.  What I REALLY want is to use "Auto" and "Voice" at the same time, but this does not seem to work in any Renpy game.