Keyboard or Mouse?
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Keyboard or Mouse?
When picking the letters, do you click the 'Request Vowel' buttons or the 'V' keys. Or both?
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
You may want to change the ambiguous wording: The ones on the screen are Buttons and the ones on the keyboard are Keys.
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
I use tab and shift+tab to alternate between the buttons and the spacebar to select, so I suppose I should have voted for keyboard, but for some reason I voted mouse. Sorry.
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
I normally press the keys now after finding out that you could do this. I think (I'm not playing Apterous this very minute but I'm fairly sure this is the case because I remember getting slightly muddled with it when I changed from one to the other) that if you click on the screen, the vowel button is to the left of the consonant button, whereas it's the other way round on the keyboard. I think it would be nicer if they matched.
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
Without checking, I think it matches the show.Gavin Chipper wrote:I think that if you click on the screen, the vowel button is to the left of the consonant button, whereas it's the other way round on the keyboard. I think it would be nicer if they matched.
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
Probably that was my original motivation, but yeah it would make some sense to switch them. I wonder whether it would annoy people to fiddle with something so familiar, though.Simon Myers wrote:Without checking, I think it matches the show.Gavin Chipper wrote:I think that if you click on the screen, the vowel button is to the left of the consonant button, whereas it's the other way round on the keyboard. I think it would be nicer if they matched.
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
I didn't know about the C/V keys early on, and then had trouble with a sticky mouse, and one press immediately gave me CCCCCC. The person who I was playing at the time mentioned the C/V keys, and I've used them ever since.
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
On the keyboard vs mouse debate, I have been playing for the last 2 days without a keyboard attached to the computer I'm using. It's interesting to note that apterous is almost completely playable - the only thing you can't seem to do is declare anything other than the exact target in a Numbers round. You do also lose some time though, clicking on individual letters rather than typing. Also having no DELETE key is a nusiance, as you have to start again if you typo (which cost me a lovely 9 in a German game on Monday). But largely - it's playable...
Incidentally, if my keyboard woes continue, this will be why I will appear to be uncommunicative if you challenge me. I'm also unlikely to accept a challenge knowing that I will only be able to declare the exact target in all the numbers games.
(I'm posting this from a different computer to the one I play apterous on.)
Incidentally, if my keyboard woes continue, this will be why I will appear to be uncommunicative if you challenge me. I'm also unlikely to accept a challenge knowing that I will only be able to declare the exact target in all the numbers games.
(I'm posting this from a different computer to the one I play apterous on.)
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
That's cool, and not something I particularly intended. The game is designed to be playable with keyboard only, but I'll see if I can extend it for mouse-only play. Potentially useful for disabled players too.Matt Bayfield wrote:On the keyboard vs mouse debate, I have been playing for the last 2 days without a keyboard attached to the computer I'm using. It's interesting to note that apterous is almost completely playable - the only thing you can't seem to do is declare anything other than the exact target in a Numbers round. You do also lose some time though, clicking on individual letters rather than typing. Also having no DELETE key is a nusiance, as you have to start again if you typo (which cost me a lovely 9 in a German game on Monday). But largely - it's playable...
Incidentally, if my keyboard woes continue, this will be why I will appear to be uncommunicative if you challenge me. I'm also unlikely to accept a challenge knowing that I will only be able to declare the exact target in all the numbers games.
(I'm posting this from a different computer to the one I play apterous on.)
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Re: Keyboard or Mouse?
Or disabled keyboards.Charlie Reams wrote:That's cool, and not something I particularly intended. The game is designed to be playable with keyboard only, but I'll see if I can extend it for mouse-only play. Potentially useful for disabled players too.