I find the idea brilliant, but I seem to be too inexperienced to coordinate the three arms. I rated your game as if I would have had this experience. ;-) It's such a refreshing idea of an old concept. Perhaps it would be easier if you added controls: left arm - 7, 4, 1; down arm - 8, 5, 2; and right arm - 9, 6, 3. Just as an idea...
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thank you! You can try that yourself, if you want – the main menu has a key-rebind submenu.
I tried a few different control schemes (qwe|zxc|asd, ewq|zxc|asd, 1qa|zxc|de3) and finally settled on the current one (qwa|zxc|dse). A friend of mine suggested qaz|zxc|cde which was kinda wild – overlapping keys! asz|wse|xsd is hard to play but kinda fun, as S extends all the arms at once. I’m curious to hear if anyone discovers other weird or intuitive controls.
I tried your suggestion (1qa|2ws|de3) for a bit – it’s interesting! I found it a bit difficult to control multiple arms at once, but that’s probably just due to my playing too many hours on the “default” controls :)