Re: [TuxKart-devel] Split screen multiplayer

[Ryan F. <rf...@gm...>]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:08:25 +0100, James Gregory
<jam...@bt...> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:17, Ricardo Cruz wrote:
> >  Go ahead! I love multi player games!
> >
> >  Just want to say something about the controls. As Steve pointed in an article
> > (sorry, don't have a link), in multi-players games keys should already be
> > pre-configurated.
> >  I know this sounds like forcing the player, but it is better than the player
> > setup the keys and then they don't work, without understanding why.
> >
> >  So, just want to ask the one that will make the control configuration to make
> > it in the same line as ClanBomber's one (sorry, didn't find a screenshot),
> > where the player can choose between: Gamepad 1 (2, 3... if available),
> > Keyboard cursors, Keyboard left part, Keyboard middle... and mouse (if
> > needed). Each "device" having an image.
> >
> 
> Huh? Don't have an option to setup keyboard controls? That's just silly,
> there are a number of reasons why you might not want to use the default
> setup:
> 
> 1. You simply don't like the default setup . Maybe you've played so much
> Counterstrike you want to use some keys over on left of the keyboard for
> cursors.
> 
> 2. If you have just one player, you will probably want to use the
> cursors for movement, but some keys some distance away on the keyboard
> for fire, jump, etc (currently we use a,s,d,f). However, if there are 3
> or 4 people having to share the keyboard then there's no way you want
> player one using a,s,d,f, as someone is probably going to be using
> a,s,d,w as cursors.
> 
> 3. Not all keyboards all over the world have the same key layout. Having
> an unchangeable setup is really going to upset people with, for
> instance, AZERTY keyboards. Although I'm not sure how common these are
> nowadays - I assume you're not using a QWERTZU keyboard, grumbel?

4. Not to mention the reasons discussed here:
http://sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/keyboards_are_evil.html

-- 
Ryan