How to play

Version information Menu bar Quick menu Equipment menu World clock Online button Chat log Chat entry Player names Player timezone Player tags

Main interface

The main interface is primarily divided in to the text chat area, the quick menu in the bottom right, and the menu bar at the top edge, as well as the online button on the bottom left. To start playing online, just press the online button.

Menu bar Menu bar

Autotext lets you automatically modify or detect outgoing or incoming chat messages using specific rules.
Scripter/Scheduler lets you write scripts to automate your character, which can be automatically changed with schedules.

Area editor lets you furnish and control your own room - for example, your dorm room or funder club room.
Contacts lets you add or remove players to your favorites list, which can auto-accept duo emotes or script interactions.
Voice lets you change your characters text-to-speech voice.

Streamer starts the in-game web browser, which may be activated during a social event.
LAN starts a built-in LAN server, which lets you play together with others even with no internet.
Finally, the Escape menu (ESC key/Start button) lets you quit the game and change various game settings.

Quick menu Quick menu

The Pack (Z key) holds your inventory, which contains your gathered items, collectables, outfits, and player cards - items that you found or received in the world. Long pressing the key/icon opens up the quick equip, which lets you favorite certain items for fast equipping.
The Planner (X key) shows your game and story information, such as the foodraise progress, storyline progress, and access to guide books or the token catalog/Kemze e-shop. Long pressing the key/icon starts SPC mode, which will start your current life script.
The Interact (C key) button lets you interact with the currently selected object (shown as an outline) with the first default option.
The Equipment (V key) button opens up the equipment menu, which lets you control or use your equipment and also unequip it.

Interface windows Interface windows

Basic controls

Press movement keys (W A S D) / move left joystick to move your character around.

Press right mouse button or move right joystick to move the camera.

Press left mouse button to focus and interact with nearby objects.
For the gamepad, hold gamepad LB, gamepad RB, and gamepad button A to focus on the closest object.

Press space key to open up the chat, in case you are online and wnat to chat with others.

More controls More controls

Press Esc to bring up the escape menu.
Press F5 to enable free-cam.
Press F6 to hide the user interface.
Press F12 to save a screenshot in Pictures/tko folder.

Character control

While moving, press left and right key (A D) or gamepad A repeatedly to run.

Press poser (Q) or gamepad LT to bring up the poser interface (left image), where you can move different body parts around.
Press emoter (E) or gamepad RT to bring up the emoter wheel (right image), where you can express emotions to other characters.
Press G to bring up the quick poser, or press Ctrl+G or Shift+G to cycle extra poses. Press Ctrl+Shift+G to reset only the pose.
Press backspace or gamepad button B to progressively reset your characters custom poses.

The Kharana Campus

The playable campus exists in a living world with time and weather, with both indoor and outdoor areas, and dream worlds. The outdoor areas have food resources to gather and indoors areas have socializing spaces, with both of them serving as soothing, calm spaces. Dream worlds are more fantastical worlds made up in the Kemona's mind, and can be accessed by suspicious smelling teas in the forest.

The world clock ticks with a 8:1 minute ratio to real life. The weather changes through-out their day, as do the schedules of the characters. You can check where the various game characters are currently in the world by interacting with the paper on the campus tree. This paper can also tell you what players are online, and it even works when playing offline!

The campus is the first place you appear at, with a large tree in the center. The tree has a shirt that lets you enter clothing customization wardrobe. The campus also have stones in a circle around the tree, which lets you start lessons. Lessons are longer introductions to the game, featuring either timed gameplay, character storytelling or cinematic cutscenes.

(Describe the NPCs lightly)

Foodraise & Tokens

The main gameplay is the foodraise, a weekly collection of gathered food from Monday morning (08.00 GMT) to Friday evening (20.00 GMT). It follows the purpose of the campus, which in the story is a food farming collective. The food is handed in at the food bins, next to the kitchen, and by contributing enough food, you gain tokens and other rewards.

Based on your foodraise contribution progress, you could get some rewards! Next to the food bins is a paper slip with your progress. For the most part, you will receive tokens that you can later exchange to other items, but non-token rewards could also be available.

Foodraise rewards Foodraise rewards

If you play online, a personal contribution percentage is calculated to a common goal.
Every 100%, 200% and 400% percentage will give you a token.
If you play offline, every 100, 200, and 400 amount of food you hand in will give you a token.
These token reward systems can be done together.
With a 100% personal contribution, you get to wear casual clothes online and also the ability to get a dorm room.
Merka can give you special rewards with the amount depending on your percentage.

Tokens are little wooden 'coins' you receive in return for your hard work. The tokens can then be exchanged for new accessories, decorations, and even furniture (assuming you've gotten a dorm room as well). To see the token exchangable items, go to the Planner, and open "Token catalog". If you have exchanged tokens for an item, you would find it in the Pack.

The campus teachers also likes tokens. You can exchange tokens to get more unique items related to creative tools: Onrakh offers inks and soap used for drawing and writing, Ikt offers books used for writing, and Retakatekt offers instruments for playing music. Keep in mind that if they do not offer these options, you have to progress on the story.

Creative tools

Creative endeavors are what decorates the world with more of your taste! Writing books, drawing graffiti, composing little melodies and acting with other characters, all of these are possible to enjoy offline or online. If you are more comfortable in solitude, go offline, and decorate the world for yourself and all of your characters will be able to see it too.

If you want to be creative with others instead, try going online! By nature of the game design, the community there tends to be relaxed, laid back, and curious to newcomers and their creations. Many of these also have suitable online 'club' events led by a event leader, which may be scheduled to happen in the future. You can see upcoming events in the eventpad found in the planner.

Creative tools Creative tools

To draw doodles on walls and floors, you can find paint buckets to pick up in the art room, in the school building and to the right. Drawing requires ink, and you can exchange your tokens with Onrakh for plenty ink and soap. Ink is for drawing, and soap is to remove sprays. There's sometimes even art club meetups!
To write books, you can exchange tokens for empty books from Ikt after the second lesson. Double click them in your inventory and start writing! If you are online, you can then submit them to the bookcases found in the library. Submitting books themselves requires ink, too, which you can get from Onrakh. Take some time to read some of the player-written classics, such as the Legend of Punkin. And sure enough, we have book club events as well!
To compose or play melodies, you can pick up some temporary instruments in the art room or get a personal instrument from Retakatekt. You need a hefty amount of tokens, but in exchange, they are forever in your inventory. Each instrument lets you compose little melodies that can even be edited and played together with others. You can even connect a Midi input device so you can play them live! And, you wouldn't believe, but sometimes, there might be music club meetups too!

And if you want to just fool around and chit-chat, you don't even need to get anything. A stage is offered in the art room, so if you want, call for a crowd or wait for an event and get on stage. Or if you want to be up close and personal, don't be afraid to interact!

Customizing & Expressions

Expressing and customizing your character is one of the core features to make yourself feel comfortable with your digital self. The main mode of communication is chatting and text-to-speech, but a lot of non-verbal ways to participate is also possible, such as character expressions, clothing and items.

Best of all, most of the customization is available for free, but if that's not enough, you can purchase some extra, special accessories in the Kemze E-shop and help me continue develop this game. The unlocked items are then still accessible in offline mode.

Chatting Chatting

Chat messages

A normal message is always talked by your character.

A message starting with ! is displayed as an emote without being spoken (for example: "* Player meows.").

A message starting with ? turns in to an animated thought bubble (for example: "Player suspects...").

An emote starting with a sound effect will produce that sound effect (for example: "!meows" results in your character making a meow). Type ! and press TAB to get a list of sound effect words.

Advanced chatting

Parts of your chat message can have text effects applied. Highlight the word, and buttons will appear to apply an effect to it.

Autotexts (accessible through the Autotext window) automatically modifies text (even built in texts) according to your specified rule.

TTS Voice TTS Voice

Your character TTS voice can be modified at any time in the voice settings window found in the escape menu, planner, or by typing /voice. The resulting text in that window is a voice modifier code that describes pitch, speed, emotionality and volume.

Chat messages can have TTS pronounciation customized by using the ¬ symbol (Alt+Q) and specifying the voice modifier code (for example, ¬:QSSS hello there¬ makes your character say "hello there" quieter and a lot slower).

TTS pronounciation can have special effects applied to it by typing /ttseffect . Typing only /ttseffect lists available tts effects.

Clothing Clothing

Your character's clothing can be changed through the wardrobe, which is accessible through the yellow shirt that hangs on the campus center tree or through dressers in player rooms. Patterns and multiple colors can be applied to clothing pieces.

You can switch between casual clothes and available uniforms/outfits in your Pack. Casual clothes become available to wear online once you achieve 100% personal contribution in the foodraise. Additional outfits and accessories can be unlocked through the token catalog or purchased in the Kemze E-shop.

Expression Expression

Posing

You can manipulate your character's body with the Poser wheels and change the positions of your arms and head, as well as changing the facial expression or hand gesture. You can also put on looping dancing gestures for your character.

By holding Ctrl and clicking, you can place hands on surfaces using IK.

Emotes

Normal emotes are animations performed through the Emote wheel, which also allows you to put a specific emotional intent behind the emote. Additionally, there are 'neutral' emotes with less expressiveness to add variety in to communication.

Duo emotes are interactive animations with another targeted player that also requires consent. When asked, the target player is prompted to accept your duo emote.

Equipments Equipments

A variety of equipments can be found around the world in specific locations. Besides the four standard resource equipments (bugnet, shovelknife, watering bucket and fishing rod) on the campus, there are other items through-out the world. In Online mode, there might be more special equipments to find and collect.

Equipments can be found in your Pack. Decorative equipments can often be tinted in various colors. Many of the items have a special effect when being used.

Characters Characters

You can create and manage multiple characters on your account, each with their own unique name, design, and progression.

Multiple characters can even be played simultaneously, allowing you to populate your own spaces or create scenarios.

Each character maintains their own inventory, token count, and personal contribution progress.

You can switch between characters through the character selection menu.

Online play

Playing online lets you partake in collaborative social activities and features!

events with unique item rewards, player rooms, minigames

Events Events

Lore event

Repeated events

Hanging out