Aja on 2/10/2024 at 16:29
Quote Posted by Kerrle
Heh, remember that while you may be playing with a modern gamepad, it's a real Gameboy Color game - I only have access to A, B, Start, Select and the D-pad.
Oh, I was thinking of Gameboy Advance I guess. Yeah, you gotta keep it authentic!
Kerrle on 4/10/2024 at 23:03
Quote Posted by Thirith
I'm curious: would something like a double press to dash be feasible on the Gameboy Color controls? Or are the button presses not checked frequently enough to make this feasible? (Not saying that you should do this or that it would play well, I'm just wondering if double press and longer press can even be used reasonably.)
It's entirely doable, but I've never been a big fan of double tap controls - that's why I made dash a selectable ability.
The full game will have additional movement controls - I'm almost certainly going to add crouching and some amount of vertical aiming, I just need to make sure it's all balanced for gameplay.
Your third item pickup is a "plasma whip", which will also eventually get a grapple upgrade.
But I agree the button limitation is... limiting. I'd love to create dash puzzles that required dashing into a grapple into a wall jump, but the current setup would kinda prohibit that as grapple and dash have to be toggled between.