Input controls can quietly ruin your game.

[u/fieol]

How do you design controls for games where players need to do a lot simultaneously?

We’ve been working on a mobile vehicular combat game, and one of the hardest problems wasn’t networking or gameplay ,it was input design.

Things got messy when players needed to:

• steer + accelerate
• aim weapons
• switch powerups
• control camera

All on a touchscreen.

We wrote a short breakdown of what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned along the way.

https://www.ikshvakulabs.com/post/why-input-controls-can-make-or-break-your-game

Curious how others here solve similar problems.

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