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My game jam game is finished https://adiwan.itch.io/lasso-loop-whiplash
Tuesday, 06-Oct-20 16:32:50 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@adiwan That's pretty fun, but I am awful at the controls. I keep expecting it to be more like "Off Road" on NES for some reason...
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@adiwan Nothing, really. I just kept thinking I'd hold a given key to keep running (like, left), then tap up or down to change slightly, but keep holding left to move on the now-not-purely-left vector. I think it may be because I had just come from FPS, where you "turn" and "run" instead of moving in any given direction.
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@scribus I understand. I bought the horse asset and it came with a controller that handles all animation states and inverse kinematics for keeping the hooves on the ground and correct leg poses. It had a function to give the horse a direction to turn and move to and used that. I thought it was "natural" for inputing the direction with WASD and the horse follows that direction. A friend of mine had also problems with that and prefers a GTA1 style of "tank" control, from the perspective of the horse itself.
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@adiwan The "natural" approach makes sense, too. If I'd come to it fresh, it may have been different. May have a totally different experience going back to it
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@scribus The "natural" approach always has some baggage to it. If you're used to drive a lot of remote cars/planes/boats you're fine with tank controls. Some games work better using a mouse pointer to command the character to walk to (Diablo or any good Point & Click adventure). Such decisions are huge and always wrong (for some people).
