http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2008/05/09/striving-for-an-invisible-control-scheme/ The art, science and business of independent game development Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:51:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2008/05/09/striving-for-an-invisible-control-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-7276 bgates87 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:33:57 +0000 http://www.gamepoetry.com/wpress/2008/05/09/striving-for-an-invisible-control-scheme/#comment-7276 <p>The best tip here is not to force the player to move their hands! It's especially annoying with keyboard-based control schemes that have a menu only accessible with the mouse. In my opinion that one factor is the difference between players playing your game for 5 minutes or 2 hours.</p> The best tip here is not to force the player to move their hands! It’s especially annoying with keyboard-based control schemes that have a menu only accessible with the mouse. In my opinion that one factor is the difference between players playing your game for 5 minutes or 2 hours.

]]> http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2008/05/09/striving-for-an-invisible-control-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Panayoti Wed, 14 May 2008 20:44:45 +0000 http://www.gamepoetry.com/wpress/2008/05/09/striving-for-an-invisible-control-scheme/#comment-36 <p>I miss the old school QA/OP/Spacebar days from Double Dragon. ;)</p> I miss the old school QA/OP/Spacebar days from Double Dragon.

]]> http://www.gamepoetry.com/blog/2008/05/09/striving-for-an-invisible-control-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-35 WaruiTanuki Wed, 14 May 2008 20:22:47 +0000 http://www.gamepoetry.com/wpress/2008/05/09/striving-for-an-invisible-control-scheme/#comment-35 <p>Poor ESDF gets no love. :( Even though it's got a little nubby thing on the F and your hand goes there when you're typing. Nice article, though. People really do need to pay more attention to this.</p> Poor ESDF gets no love. Even though it’s got a little nubby thing on the F and your hand goes there when you’re typing. Nice article, though. People really do need to pay more attention to this.

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