Hi there. You can't move with the keyboard, but mouse should work as long as you are not in VR Mode. If playing in VR a motion controller is required.
Unfortunately these suggestions didn't work.
There's no options menu displayed at all, just the cycling opening title screens. The game also does not go into mouse mode when I click the mouse buttons (my current mouse's wheel can't be clicked as a third mouse button or rotated, but I'm assuming that isn't the button I should press to get the mouse recognised.)
I tried looking for a text-readable configuration file & found "boot.config" in the "VekWars_Data" folder of the game. In this file I experimented changing "vr-enabled=" & hdr-display-enabled=" to every combination of "0" & "1" but this didn't achieve anything either.
I should mention I'm running VekWars on a PC using Windows 10 Pro.
(Btw, thanks for your assistance. I suspect ironing this out will help a lot of past & potential purchasers of your work.)
Hi there. Sorry for the problems you are having. Can you give me a little more information about your setup? Do you have a VR headset connected? If not, it should not launch into VR mode at all, and moving the mouse should move the viewpoint from the moment the game is loaded, and clicking the left button should exit out of the cycling title screens and to the main menu. Are you running the latest version of the game, and are you launching it from the desktop or from the itch.io client? Make sure you are playing "VekWars - Latest Version" and not "Original VR Austin Jam Build".
OK I've now got VekWars working on my system; I must've ignorantly installed the older "original" version because I used the wrong way to download the game.
I got your game in the BLM bundle, so I actually paid for it. But, confusingly, there's multiple ways to download items on itch.io once you've paid for them, which can lead you to download the wrong version of those items unaware.
One method of downloading something you have bought is :
(1) log into itch.io (sometimes optional);
(2) go directly to the page for whatever you are seeking to download;
(3) click the "Download Now" button;
(4) click the text link "No thanks, just take me to the downloads";
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(5) click the "Download" button next to the file(s) you want to download.
In VekWar's case only one download button is displayed at step (5), if you go this route. It IS labelled "VekWars Original VR Austin Jam Build.zip", but without reading the previous game page properly, it's not obvious that as an older version, this may not work on some systems. I must've downloaded & installed this version in error.
For people who've bought something as part of a bundle,
an alternative "proper" (if bizarrely convoluted) method of downloading it is :
(1) log into itch.io;
(2) click on the down arrow at the top right of the screen,
& choose the text option "My Library";
(3) under the heading "My Library", click the text link "Things you own";
(4) click the "Bundles" heading near the top of the screen;
(5) click the name of the bundle including whatever you wish to download;
(6) in the search box displayed,
type the name of what you're seeking *exactly correct*
(e.g. searching for "Vek Wars" with a space in the middle won't find anything),
then the Enter or Return key;
(7) after the results of your search appear,
click the "Download" button under the name of what you're looking for;
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(8) click the "Download" button next to the file(s) you want to download.
*Whew.*
Yeah, that is confusing. Thanks for pointing that out. The reason that it only shows you the "Original" version when you click "just take me to the game" is that the original is free, but in order to download the latest version you must pay $2.00 or more. It's annoying that even if you own it, itch just shows you the free item.
If you do own it, however, the page does have a "you own this" banner with a "download" button which DOES take you to both downloads.
I think I'll just add the Jam version to the $2 tier as a bonus, since it's quite far behind the latest and doesn't really sell it well.