Arrow keys seem to get hijacked by the scroll bar which gets worse with longer chat
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#12How do you fire???
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#13How do you fire???
You point at enemy with mouse pointer and left click to fire
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#14What are even the controls... I get moving around, no concept of how to fire, or even the rules.
WASD / Arrow keys to move.
Click to shoot.
You can't move on phone yet (but you can shoot!), I'm not sure how to do the controls there. Maybe a multitouch thing where the first touch makes a joystick appear for movement, and 2nd tap shoots in the tap direction?
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#15Forgot to mention "In 50 KB of WASM" :)
Sound effects are generated on the fly (with sfxr), there is Text to Speech (with Software Automatic Mouth, from the Commodore 64)
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#16Funny. On iPhone I’m stuck in the middle. Assume it’s beca I don’t have a mouse? Still, I played for 5 minutes or so shooting user 2 —fracking gnat— from the center of the game. hehe
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#17Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Update: got rid of webassembly (for my usecase it was pure overhead).
Game is now 24KB (down from 170KB)
Will ship new version tomorrow and start fixing all the bugs / complaints.
Netcode needs major overhaul.
Need to move the game logic into server for anti-cheat and for more consistent experience.
(Currently collision is done locally, which coupled with the lag is terrible. (On that note, I need more servers...))