Thanks! Fortunately both of us have keyboards that can handle many keys pressed at once, so it didn’t stop us from developing. We were planning on allowing the user to limit the number of keys used simultaneously, maybe by having them press as many keys as they can and using the number of key-presses picked up by the keyboard as the limit.
lol - we had exactly this idea while thinking what to do. however we didn't do it, because many keyboards stop working after 4-6 keys pressed simultaniously.
Haha yeah, we thought the idea might be simple but we fancied picking an idea that we would have time to polish, as we’ve run out of time in past game jams.
We tried to make the game difficult enough that most people wouldn’t hit the 8-ish button limit we found some keyboards have—there’s actually a lot going on when we choose the next key (e.g. this expression, that reduces the keys the randomiser can choose down to only those close enough to the keys pressed by both fingers adjacent to the next finger to place)! For people with keyboards with higher key-rollover, the second gamemode challenges them to press a lot of keys.
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The idea is so well thought. The game is hard but probably mostly due to some fingers stiffness...
Nice Idea!:D We hat a similar one:D But the hardwarelimitations are very bad:( But nice Work!
Thanks! Fortunately both of us have keyboards that can handle many keys pressed at once, so it didn’t stop us from developing. We were planning on allowing the user to limit the number of keys used simultaneously, maybe by having them press as many keys as they can and using the number of key-presses picked up by the keyboard as the limit.
lol - we had exactly this idea while thinking what to do. however we didn't do it, because many keyboards stop working after 4-6 keys pressed simultaniously.
Haha yeah, we thought the idea might be simple but we fancied picking an idea that we would have time to polish, as we’ve run out of time in past game jams.
We tried to make the game difficult enough that most people wouldn’t hit the 8-ish button limit we found some keyboards have—there’s actually a lot going on when we choose the next key (e.g. this expression, that reduces the keys the randomiser can choose down to only those close enough to the keys pressed by both fingers adjacent to the next finger to place)! For people with keyboards with higher key-rollover, the second gamemode challenges them to press a lot of keys.