Bit Kid

You should be able to enter a doorway by pressing up on the controller or keyboard.

gruevy wrote:You should be able to enter a doorway by pressing up on the controller or keyboard.

Yeah, I think that would definitely make things more fluid. Since entering a doorway is a type of movement it should be able to be controlled from the arrow keys.

Up, Down, and Interact are all safe doorway functions as there's no combat or platforming involved in those rooms.

You could also make it so up allows you to talk to a person when standing directly in front of them.

I like entering doors as it is now. Since others seem to prefer pressing up, though, maybe it'd be a good idea to give us a choice of pressing Up or some other button that's mapped on the controller.

I only held off on using up because I was considering using it as a secondary action of sorts. We'll be going back to the drawing board after the Kickstarter and revamping everything to make a bit more sense.

Good to hear. I am using the keyboard and have made frequent mistakes when navigating the menu trying to drop items and equip them etc. I imagine it's a little less fumbly with a controller but my mild dyslexia tends to fail horribly at this sort of thing 'now what button was what again?'

I'd be fine with a keyboard based control scheme using up to like, 12 keys + arrows for various things instead of limiting it to the same combined bindings as a game controller. (Granted controllers have 10 buttons plus dpad plus more)

Another vote here for 'Up' to interact. UNLESS there's another function planned for it.

I agree. As far as I can tell, so far there is no reason to have a separate button to interact with NPCs or the environment. Making it a separate button, instead of 'Up', bugs me while I'm playing. Once I enter the menu, I have to remember to switch to a button who's only purpose is selection within menus, instead of repurposing a button I'm already used to hitting.

That being said, I am having a great time playing the demo and can't wait to see the game further down the road!

I, for one, would like it better if Up is Jump. And that's how I usually play switching keys when it's possible and not inconvenient. I would actually prefer if Chasm had it that only two main keys (d,s?) are needed for most of the actions (combat and contestual interaction) and maybe holding space-bar + arrows is to look around!