oh, I did understood that. I just felt that it wasn’t effective (it took me around 1 second to press the required key, after gliding my finger over all of the keys on my keyboard). I feel it’s a very clever idea but that it distracts from the immersion provided by the otherwise unique and tactile control scheme you had going on with the mouse.
I am wondering if there is maybe another way of implementing the ‘groping around in the dark’ with just the mouse, or at least with the keyboard in a way that is not so easily cheesed by dancing down the rows of keys. Here are a couple of ideas I’ve had:
- I don’t know if it’s possible to detect whether the mouse is not on its pad, but what you could do is have to move it around on the pad, lift it ‘over’ obstacles signaled by audio cues (lifting over being simply taking the mouse off the pad and then putting it down on another part of the mat) and then grab at the environment with a left click. Or maybe you can’t jump your hand over objects but have to instead move them out of the way with a left click.
- the object moves when you correctly select it with a key-press, such that it’s three consecutive key-press prompts (this is to represent the object being slippery or perhaps shifting around in the truck)
Apologies if this is two-centish, I did that just cause I think it’s an interesting design problem and wanted to try to solve it myself ;)
This is random, but the game reminded me of that song “feiticeira”