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thewierdnut / endless-mobile

Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
https://endless-sky.github.io/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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New simple gestures #81

Closed genry718 closed 10 months ago

genry718 commented 1 year ago

Problem Description

Just "to left then to right", "to up then to down" without angle/arrow - think its much easy to draw this in courage of battle :)

Related Issue Links

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Desired Solution

new more simpler gestures

Alternative Approaches

dont know

Additional Context

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YiffLord commented 1 year ago

These kind of gestures are so simple and generic they may interfere with normal gameplay. Moving or aiming at an enemy could trigger unwanted orders easily.

thewierdnut commented 1 year ago

There is a balance between having gestures simple to draw and recognize, vs accidentally triggering them. Unfortunately a lot of it maybe comes down to user preference.

My long term goal is to add user definable symbols, but that will involve the creation of a new user interface that will let you train the symbol recognizer. That is not coming soon though.

genry718 commented 1 year ago

my main idea was to use this simple gestures only with this option https://github.com/thewierdnut/endless-mobile/issues/80

thewierdnut commented 10 months ago

I'm gonna close this. I don't think it will work to have such simple gestures, as they would be too easy to trigger accidentally. Eventually, I plan to have user-specified gestures, which would basically support this if the user wants.