"What are the controls?"


I like using a laptop trackpad as an input for steering and aiming, using HTML5 Pointer Lock. I like it so much that I made that my default control scheme for mouse & keyboard users in my games. And because of the way I'm doing shared-keyboard local multiplayer, I thought it made sense to use V and B for "dash" and "fire".

But there aren't a lot of games that use the mouse, plus V and B, as the default controls, so that was probably a bad idea. And there was no way to see what your controls were during gameplay. You'd have to quit the game to see the controls again. Non-standard controls, plus the inability to see the control scheme while playing, is a bad combo.

So I fixed both. Now the default key/mouse control setup is ↑←↓→ X Z. And I put a control summary in the pause menu, so it's easy to figure it out if you forget.

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