lustfulillumination

[News] Full controller support! (at least on the gameplay)

Added 2022-09-15 19:43:03 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone, Corintio here!

If you tried to play our game using a controller before, you would notice that you would have one key assigned to use your spells. Which at the prologue, where Kalyskah has tons of them, wasn't even near enough!

So for the past two days, I have sat to try and solve this issue while also thinking of ways to assign more spell and here's what I did:

Basically what we do is to have a button that when you hold, the same keys assigned to a certain spell slot will use a different one. Check out how we made the menus for Keyboard and Controller on the skill tree screen:

Now if you have played the version 0.19.4 on a controller, you might remember that the arrow keys on the controller were assigned to things like the blood buff and interaction before. So we had to rearrange all the other keys in order to accommodate 8 hotkeys for spells. On this change, we changed light attacks to RB and heavy attacks to RT (People that played games like Dark Souls will probably be familiar with this type of input) and we also did that same logic of having a button that you hold to make a key do a different thing. Check how Y is the vampire vision when Kalyskah doesn't have a weapon, Mist form when she has a weapon, and pressing LB + Y activates the blood buff:

The interaction key has also been assigned to X (from down arrow), and pressing LB + X will make her equip\unequip her weapon.

To do that was more time consuming than I expected but I think the results are worth it!

I've made this spreadsheet here to make it easier to visualise the commands. I wasn't expecting to show it to anyone so it might be a bit hard to understand 🙃

There are some menus that don't work well with a controller, like when you interact with beds, and during the month I'll try to update them to work accordingly. I hope that until the end of the year, our game will be fully playable with a controller in a way that players will never have to touch the keyboard unless they want to!