- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:20:33 -0700
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: robert@ocallahan.org, Vincent Scheib <scheib@google.com>, Klaas Heidstra <klaas1988@gmail.com>, Brandon Andrews <warcraftthreeft@sbcglobal.net>, Olli@pettay.fi, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org>, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, "Gregg Tavares (wrk)" <gman@google.com>, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > And if the user doesn't approve the lock you do what? Not let them > play your game? Maybe. It really is impossible to play a game with a control scheme based on WASD+mouselook if you can't get a lock. Alternately, you can switch to a different (less good) control scheme if you can't acquire a lock. This is not acceptable behavior for the default case, though. WASD+mouselook is a very entrenched and natural control scheme; anything else will be much harder to use. The difference isn't always quite this extreme; sometimes the experience is only moderately degraded, instead of majorly, if you can't get a lock. For example, edge scrolling in StarCraft, Civilization, or similar games is really useful. You could play the game without it, it would just be annoying. (The gamedev would have to implement some other way to do scrolling, either a modifier key + arrows, or dedicating the drag action to scrolling, or similar.) ~TJ
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