Very cool concept with nice graphics. I couldn't get the arrow keys to turn so it was a little bit difficult to play for me with WASD and spacebar since I am left handed. I had to cross my hands and that's never great in an action oriented game. Regardless, well done on this game! I hope to see you develop it further post-jam and perhaps add better controls for us left handed :)
Good theme interpretation too.
Thank you for the feedback.
That's interesting about the left-handedness. I actually playtested the game left handed and don't use the arrows at all and only use my right (dominant) hand for controlling my mouse for the UI. Maybe I've learned to use a keyboard weirdly? I do have a few things I'm ambidextrous with.
There seems to be two main camps with dungeon crawler controls - either strafes are the main keys (e.g. WASD is forward, strafe left, backwards, strafe right) or turns are the main keys (e.g. WASD is forward, turn left, backwards, turn right). I went with the prior as it felt more natural to me as a FPS player where the mouse is my turning control.
But thinking about it, it may make more sense to do it the other way. Particularly when you think about arrow keys - it's impossible to play the game just using arrow keys if left/right arrows are for strafing, but if left/right is for turning then you can.
Do you think it would be better if I made it with WASD working as is, and arrow keys work as forward/backward/turn left/turn right?
Are there other keys I could put the turning/strafing controls on that would feel more natural for left handed playing? Like if you're using arrow keys are there keys you'd prefer as the strafing keys?
