I'm a stickler for horrible controls. Wizards Love Caves is a pretty simple game so I needed stupid easy controls.
My initial control scheme was:
WASD/arrow keys for directional movement
Left-click/spacebar to fire an arrow
So as soon as a I had a wizard to defeat I sat this in front of Xen.
His feedback:
Why in the hell can the wizards shoot in all directions but I can only shoot in four directions?
I want to aim with mouse.
I hate your stupid game.
What I got from it:
Don't! have mouse controls, if they shoot with left-click they want to aim with the cursor.
Moxie:
The spacebar is too close WASD and the arrows. Use Z and X for changing spells (this was before the change to shooting arrows).
What I got from it:
Pretty much exactly what Moxie said. He pinned down the control issue I was having with my general (and unnamed, uncredited) playtesters. I switched the control scheme to arrow keys and Z. It has worked out swimmingly.
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