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« on: August 28, 2015, 05:49:04 pm »
Just tinkering with controls for a bit. Lets lay down some theory behind the controls here:
WASD is used for movement because of the layout of a gameboy/snes controller/nes controller etc. Movement is controlled by the left hand while items by the right. WASD was chosen to keep that consistency. Thus, shift and spacebar were chosen as shield and sword since the pinky and thumb fall right on those keys.
Left and Right arrow were chosen arbitrarily as the item keys. Given that, the middle finger falls right on the up arrow key. Would it then make more sense and be more comfortable to move the action button from C to up arrow? I personally shouldn't be answering this question myself. Being a guitarist, my hand is a bit more flexible and I don't have trouble hitting the C key from that position so I'm reaching out for feedback on this new position first.