The Linux builds for all four chapters of Snail Trek have been patched to address the " SHIFT to move fast" bug (the bug was: pressing shift, or alt, or a few other special keys would instead result in the parser box opening up with a number in it).
Snail Trek - Chapter 2: A Snail Of Two Worlds update for June 7, 2018
Patch for Linux
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