{"id":2406,"date":"2017-09-23T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2017-09-23T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T16:17:38","slug":"controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/09\/controllers\/","title":{"rendered":"Controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Jeff\u2019s blog post on <a href=\"http:\/\/jeff-vogel.blogspot.com\/2017\/09\/the-life-and-merciful-death-of-fad.html\" target=\"_blank\">fad controllers<\/a> and read a comment thread where people shamed some dudes who were playing games on keyboards. Here\u2019s my take.<\/p>\n<p>Controllers \u2013joystick, gamepad, keyboard, Ouija board- are like musical instruments. You have your preference and you can play any music with it but probably, it fits some genre better than others. With the right skills though, you can do whatever you want: beating Super Meat Boy on a keyboard is a bit like covering some early Pantera on a saxophone, that sounds risky. But if you\u2019re good, you probably can do that. And you\u2019re awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Controller choice doesn\u2019t matter so much. People are having fun? You good. What developers need to do is test different input and make sure they\u2019re all decent, instead of polishing one input scheme to death while forgetting about the others. And&#160; of course, a re-mapping tool should be standard these days.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the Wiimote. I could play golf and physics-based games for the next five decades with it without any issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Jeff\u2019s blog post on fad controllers and read a comment thread where people shamed some dudes who were playing games on keyboards. Here\u2019s my take. Controllers \u2013joystick, gamepad, keyboard, Ouija board- are like musical instruments. You have your preference and you can play any music with it but probably, it fits some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}