Keyboard Shortcuts

While Apparatus is primarily an Android game designed with touch controls in mind, the game has many keyboard shortcuts that can be used when playing with a physical or virtual keyboard available.

Most of these shortcuts were likely originally intended for using the desktop version of Apparatus during development, but they ended up in the released Android version as well. As such some of them may be strange or gamebreaking, such as the keybinds to spawn objects directly into the level.

• B: Go back (depends on context)
• 1: Set background to BG 1
• 2: Set background to BG 2
• 3: Set background to BG 3
• 4: Set background to BG 4
• 5: Set background to BG 5
• 6: Set background to BG 6
• 7: Set background to BG 7
• 8: Set background to BG 8
• 9: Set background to BG 9
• 0: Turn level Christmas themed
• Up Arrow or W: Move camera up
• Down Arrow or S: Move camera down
• Left Arrow: Move camera left
• Right Arrow: Move camera right
• A: Press lefthand button of control panel
• D: Press righthand button of control panel
• M: Zoom in camera
• N: Zoom out camera
• O: Open a level by the name of TESTLEVEL
• P: Undo last action
• Q: Toggle visibility of GUI elements
• R: Toggle shadows on/off
• T: Toggle debug tracing on/off
• U: Save current level as TESTLEVEL
• Y: Spawn a damper object at center of the level
• Z: Spawn a Christmas Gift object at center of the level