Show HN: I made a puzzle game with Three.js • Hacker News Board

Great game, but I was having difficulties with the controls. Even after a few levels I still got confused with the mapping of the arrow keys to the isometric view. Quite a few deaths happened because of that.

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game with Three.js

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Post by ofcourseyoudo » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 10:00 PM UTC

Great job. Very satisfying

334 moves!

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game with Three.js

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Post by mattbgates » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC

fun game, got to level 10.

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game with Three.js

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Post by schemescape » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 11:06 PM UTC

thomasfriday wrote: post #3

schemescape wrote: post #2

Any chance the buttons could be angled to make it more clear which way they rotate? Overall, this is great!

It's true that with the isometric view, what is "right" and "up" can be confusing. I could teak the buttons on mobile, but not sure how to solve this for desktop.

I mostly meant on mobile (edit: because the icons weren't angled).

On desktop, you could use keys other than the arrow keys (e.g. q/s for one direction and w/a for the other, since they're more diagonal, or even 1, 3, 7, 9 on the numpad). Edit: I had no trouble on desktop, for what it's worth.

Another option would be to change the view angle so that the directions more closely match the orientation of the arrow keys. It would throw off the nice isometric view a bit, but I assume it's real 3D, so this would be easy to change, right? :)