ryusui

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maker of tiny games | navigator of retail chaos | artist | FFXIV fan (Ryusui Teira@Brynhildr) | he/him | trans rights are human rights | death to crypto


Beancatte
@Beancatte
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panicattheopticon
@panicattheopticon

my favorite era of PC ports where developers making games for consoles acted as if they'd never seen a keyboard before & instead had it described to them by the journal of an english military officer in the 1780s in occupied scotland

"Ah, and then it seemed the brutes would press a sort of key to Jump yonder from cliffe- if I recall, it was some sort of 'Screene Printerery' tabulation adjacent to the Numepade"

and they go "oh ok prntscreen for jump and zxcv for movement, got it" and we get this

like you MADE THIS ON A KEYBOARD, did you never think "Man that would be pretty weird to play with Lol" or do you have some kind of Freakshow keyboard where the prntscreen is the spacebar spot like wtf


zaratustra
@zaratustra

weird controls in computer games have a History


ryusui
@ryusui

all i can think of now is how The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime mapped the Inventory and Biochip menus to the tilde and backspace keys because the planned-but-unreleased-in-the-US console versions mapped them to the L and R triggers on a Playstation controller

i can only imagine the rationale for the keybinds looked something like "imagine the controller pressed flat by a steamroller, then laid on top of a keyboard"


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