[Kde-games-devel] KDE Games Report from Akademy 2008

[Eugene Trounev]

Why not add a button "Click me to start the game" sort  of thing on screen. It 
doesn't even have to be a real button, just something resembling one. That 
would prompt people to click on the screen and avoid the confusion.

On Sunday 17 August 2008 08:22:29 Fela Winkelmolen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer 
<karl at huftis.org>wrote:
> > Matt Williams skreiv:
> > > We need to think about making our games more accessible. For the most
> >
> > part
> >
> > > this means considering making your games playable entirely through the
> > > keyboard.
> >
> > Making the games entirely playable with the *mouse* would also be nice.
> > For instance, in KBreakout you have to use the keyboard to start the game
> > (press the 'Space' bar), even though the rest of the game is played using
> > the mouse. Very annoying. :(
>
> I'm going to fix this as I get complaints from a lot of people, but the
> simplest solution of fire on mouse click wont work, it was that way when in
> beta and people kept clicking outside of the window, making the game lose
> focus, and that was even more annoying than having to get used to using the
> keyboard, believe me. If you want more info about it please look for the
> relevant bug report.
>
> Cheers,
> - fela

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