Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed it, I guess it wasn't a pointless waste of your time after all then :>
I'm always torn with the menu based controls. I spent many roguelike iterations carefully improving the UX of the menus, so I'm pretty confident in them. But when I added keyboard controls in MAGE I realized the key controls are just so much better ergonomically, it is almost a crime to let people use menus :>
This is why I end up with the keyboard default, I figure if we start with menus no one will ever discover keyboard controls as the CrackUI will hook them; but at least this way people will know the other controls are there and may consider them at some point....
But it probably causes many people to bounce off the game right away :<
Good thing I write 7DRLs as a pointless waste of my time, and not to make money, so I can experiment as I wish with these :>