#Touch Screen Controllers

[warm-glowing-warming-glow]

[jinikaris]

dominATE hyunlix moments ─‎ ‎♡ ⋆｡˚  66 // - ✧ KAOHSIUNG [✮]

felix casually touching and sniffing hyunjin's sweat 👀

[brandwhorestarscream]

'mewling virgin orion this' and 'experienced top megatronus' that. WRONG

Orion Pax is an experienced playboy city mech that's had the finest spike and valve from Praxus to Polyhex. He gets to sweep Megatron off his feet and deflower this previously untouched and unshakable fortress of a mech. Why? Because I SAID SO

[deebrisbyfish]

To all the Trekkies/ers out there looking at that parody in the top panel saying "Actually, Dee. You're sitting in OPS, not the helm, and there's only one control panel on that layout of bridge." I say, you'll notice that I blew UP the helm. Ops CAN assume helm control, thank you very much. As for the other part, it's a visual reboot, and to paraphrase Jay Fosgitt, "I do what I want".

[magpie-trinkets]

I missed the entire level 5 thing but apparently cowboys are real!!!!

[dravidious]

I've been playing Trauma Team and I finally got to the first surgery section and I've been worrying about how it would feel with motion controls, and yeah a laser pointer is always going to be more awkward than a stylus, but my god the tool wheel is so good it might just make up for that.

In Under the Knife, each tool is a button on the touch screen. Simple, intuitive, easy to swap between, no problem. At least I thought there's no problem, until I realized: You have to move the stylus away from the spot your working on. And I realized that's a problem, because you don't have to do that in Trauma Team. And it feels INCREDIBLE.

Being able to laser a spot and then immediately gel it over, without removing my cursor from the spot, is so quick and so smooth and it feels so GOOD! All the switching is controlled by the nunchuk, so it doesn't interfere with your cursor movement at all. You can switch tools while moving your cursor to the next spot, so it basically takes no time at all, you aren't reaching back and forth across the screen over and over.

My only gripe is that they absolutely could have done this for the DS games too, but they just didn't

[skoulsons]

I feel so bad for people who willingly stream on twitch/YouTube of a game they’ve never played before, ESPECIALLY if their following is big

Backseating is the scum of the earth. Someone says “hey, please don’t backseat as I’m playing this for the first time and I’m going through it blind and want to figure this out by myself” and they are FLOODED with people in their chat going “go here! do this before you do that! did you know this about the story and lore? did you know you can do this fun thing with the gameplay?!?! Let me willingly hurt this experience for you by telling you everything in advance!!”

Like, what!!! is wrong with you!!! The streamer you’re watching, someone you obviously like, is telling you NICELY to not do this thing, and you deliberately go against that and ruin their enjoyment of the game!! Way to go. You’ve now ruined the experience for not only the streamer, but for hundreds of people because now everyone is pissed at you for saying something you should’ve had the self control to not say

Backseating doesn’t go into the void. You’re speaking to someone. They are reading what you said. And they can’t just… forget about it now that they’ve read or heard it. You’ve just ruined an innocent and blind experience for this person that is trying to have fun and play a game they’ve never played. Well done.

[gxtzeizm]

just finished my demo presentation for my fundemental computer graphics project earlier this afternoon so yeahhhhh

[knightofleo]

[thecoolerbrother]

i think something moonage daydream was really good at doing was capturing a vibe

[joelletwo]

maths in my takasugi reading 😰

[sofflepoffle]

As I return to ace attorney fandom stuff it is once again clear to me that I desperately need to play Apollo Justice, but I absolutely don’t want to pay 50 bucks for the collection when I don’t even know if I want to play the other games 😭 what’s a girl to do

[thepleasuregoblin]

There's an episode of that weird Phillip K Dick show where this guy keeps getting yelled at by his wife because he uses the (unlabeled) buttons to turn off holograms and shit instead of the voice controls. "You're so tactile! You neanderthal!"

That show is okay overall but I think about that a lot. I feel like that's me. Tactile interaction with tech is so important to me. I want to press buttons. Please.

[savageboar]

tbh replaying pmdgti makes me curious if any good pmd rom hacks are out there

[mollypaup]

utena being a story about stories is great. anthy stabbing utena being treated as a real wound instead of it being the obvious stage trick that it is, the sword passing under her right arm, on the side opposite to the audience, is so fucking good.

[sibyl-of-space]

I'm having a very interesting experience working on revising the main movement/interaction mechanic for my game.

From a certain standpoint, it makes complete sense to just completely axe the WASD controls and focus on point-and-click. That's well-trodden territory, it's how almost every game in this genre and adjacent genres do it, it makes the most sense.

However.

Point-and-click hurts my wrists.

WASD is much, much easier on me.

And, well, to risk some vague spoilers, I am making a game with a protagonist who has fucked up wrists. It would feel completely against the narrative I am writing to use the traditional control scheme and make a game that feels polished, but that I physically cannot play without pain.

So.... now the question has become.... how do I create what is spiritually a point-and-click, but with WASD/keyboard controls?

...I have some ideas. But turns out iterating on this control scheme is going to be more complicated than I thought. Because there is a pretty straightforward answer (just make it a point-and-click), but it's not one I want to go with.....