Belle Boomerang Demo
Demons of Asteborg Demo
Two Steam pixel-art platformer demos: looked through loads of pixel-art sort of standard-action platformers on Steam, these were nearly the only two decent-looking 2D ones I managed to find that didn’t have flashing VFX. But they both felt like they were trying too hard on presentation over actual gameplay. And Asteborg screen-shakes with every hit, ack.
I recently got mad at a stalker mod for giving it call of duty controls you couldn’t rebind, but then I started laughing because they left quick bandage and medkit on [ and ], the most intuitive keys.
kilobytes per meter
Has it ever really been keyboard or mouse?
I mean yeah wolf and doom were both controlled by most people exclusively by keyboard, and there was also a wacky “mouse only” or at least “mouse mostly” setting for doom (hence the “right click to move forward” joke)
And don’t forget all the joystick sickos whose primary analogy when fps was invented (“piloting” around the game avatar in first person) was spaceflight games!
Pedals for strafe was a decent setup back in the day, even if I no longer have a setup with pedals.
I used to play quake 2 with a trackball because you could stunt on all the suckers stuck with shitty ball mice
Yeah I played q2 and q3 with a trackball, actually got pretty good at railgun sniping
I think before trackballs and then optical mice like, 50-60% accuracy with the rail was very, very good. Kinda crazy to compare it to how ez it was to nail shots in ut2k4 instagib just a few years later
I think of quake as the first mouselook game but even that was off by default iirc, it was a checkbox in the options.
Pretty sure halflife was the first game with wasd as default (and they needed a whole separate movement tutorial to get people acclimated)
It’s actually marathon
yeah, half life was by no means first, half life was maybe the first retail release that took it for granted, but quakeworld etc were around for a very long two years before that
Nothing on mac is allowed to be the first anything, sorry I don’t make the rules
I will kill you next time I see you with my .44 magnum mega class
it wasn’t even in the options menu! you run the exe with +mlook, or use a console command
some mad shit
the first game where mouselook was the assumed, default input method was bethesda’s terminator: future shock
everything else, you had to set it up
And we laugh about how long it took for humans to invent the wheel…
it took awhile before we thought to cut a hole in the bottom of the basketball net
