Really nice game. I think the ENTER is a weird choice as well. But what's far worse is that the game crashed with an error popup. Forgot to screenshot it, but I did make a screenshot of when it happened. And what totally sucks is that I can't start at the last checkpoint. That's such a killer for games, not saving your progress :-( However, the game itself is perfect, nice mechanics, nice style and responsive controls.
You are the second person this has happened to. If you adjust memory settings in your browser it fixes it but I can't realistically expect people to do that in the context of a game jam. Gonna push a windows build later today. I don't play platformers with keyboard so I don't really know what would be appropriate for the dash. What would you recommend or think would be most intuitive for keyboard users? I'll add it in the build so people can choose
What game developers typically do for actions is using the either the ZXC buttons, in combination with the arrows for steering, or for instance the JKL buttons for people that prefer to use WASD to move around. Space for jumping is fine btw, I'm using my thumbs for that, which is not in an awkward position when using either ZXC or JKL.
I'm assuming you're doing the coding work on a desktop, so just try think from the perspective of a gamer and hold your hands on the keys. You will probably feel right away that certain key combos are a bit awkward :)
You know what. I completely forgot that I mapped arrow keys as well and assumed you guys were both playing with WASD which had me confused as to why you would want x or z for dash. But anyways in the current build I went ahead and added both x and z and left enter so people can choose. If I end up doing another build I'll go ahead and throw in jkl too just so everything is covered. I'm surprised neither of you guys were bothered by having to hold up and left/right for angled dashes, but that's something I really can't come up with a solution for unfortunately. Anyways thank you so much for your feedback it helped me improve my game!
Nice and fast response! I'll probably try it again later today or this weekend. I think JKL is less common, so no worries. The angled dashes are perfectly fine. On a keyboard it feels perfectly natural to hold up and left/right to move in an angled direction.
