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Control Scheme Preference Survey

A topic by QuinnCG created 10 days ago Views: 81 Replies: 5
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Submitted

Hi,

I find people in game jams to have fairly different ideas of what a proper control scheme is for a game. To that end, I wanted to conduct a survey.

I'm currently developing a top-down 2D shooter game where you move a crosshair around the screen and press buttons to fire or alternative fire; You can freely aim wherever. Also, you can press a button to dash.

With that fairly vague description, what comes to mind in terms of controls? This would be on a keyboard and mouse.

I'm not keen on adding a full keybinding solution, but I thought if there were common similarities in what people expect, I could make multiple alternate control schemes you can select from at the start of the game.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Fire = Left Mouse

Alt Fire = Right Mouse

Dash = E or Space Bar (presuming movement is WASD)

Submitted

Thanks for the input. Very helpful.

Submitted

Pun not intended.

Submitted (1 edit)

left click to fire, hold for charge and alt fire, right click to dash? But nothing beats remappable inputs when it comes to accesibility, you will always make it hard for some people with any scheme.

I've found some people have trouble with wasd and using space simultaniously and end up using the same fingers for both, which makes especially dashes or jumps while moving difficult.

Submitted

Interesting. Thanks.