Garden Walk

Garden Walk teaches your left hand the keys most computer games use. Ten short lessons each add a key or two, in a garden full of small jobs. Finish every job as fast as you can and earn a medal.

How to play

Each lesson is one walled garden, shown whole on the screen. A card first explains the new key. The clock starts when you first move.

The jobs:

• Flowers: walk over them to pick them.
• Seed packets: stand close and press E.
• Gates: press E to open them. They block the way but don't count as jobs.
• Puddles: hop over them with Space. Land in the water and you go back to dry ground.
• Low branches: hold C to crouch under them.
• Dry plants, bushes, mounds and butterflies: pick the right tool, then press E.

The lesson ends the moment the last job is done.

Controls

• Mouse / touch: buttons on the cards only. The game itself needs a keyboard.
• Keyboard: W A S D walk; hold two together to go diagonally. Space hops, Shift sprints, C crouches, E uses. 1 is the watering can, 2 the shears, 3 the trowel, 4 the net. Hold Tab to see the jobs still left. Esc pauses.

The arrow keys and number pad do nothing here, apart from a nudge back to W A S D.

Lessons

1. Hold W
2. A and D
3. S backs up
4. Diagonals
5. E to use
6. Space to hop
7. Shift to sprint
8. C to crouch
9. The tool belt
10. The whole garden

An on-screen keyboard shows the lesson's keys. Each label fades as you use that key well, and comes back for a moment after a slip. On the lessons menu you can keep labels always on or turn them off. You can also choose Xbox or PlayStation, so tips name the matching controller button.

Scoring

Each lesson has gold, silver and bronze times, worked out from the shortest route through its jobs. The leaderboard ranks your best time on lesson 10, The whole garden, and the lowest time wins.

Tips

• Hold the movement keys down rather than tapping them. Tapping slows you down.
• Start each hop right at the puddle's edge, and keep holding the direction while you're in the air.
• You can't hop while crouched, and you can't stand up under a branch.
• Switch tools on the way to the next job, so E works the moment you arrive.
• Sprint lesson gold needs Shift held the whole way round.