[vunderba]

Nice job. Bit of feedback:

- I’d recommend having the crossword grid take up the full screen. If there’s enough width and height, you could start the player in the middle. That would give it more of a feeling of unlimited bounds which feels more appropriate given the free-thinking theme

- For rotating between horizontal and vertical, consider using a single toggle key instead of two separate keys. That would make it faster to work with, especially if it’s something that doesn’t require moving to the function keys (something like Shift + Enter).

- You might also want to change the UI color or add a visual indicator so you can immediately tell which mode you’re in. Right now, it’s not clear whether you’re about to type vertically or horizontally.

[numtel]

That last point, yeah, I was thinking a status bar would be handy but now that I'm typing and thinking about it, maybe I'll just change the cursor color. That's enough of an indication and then no new ui elements need to be added.

The reason it's not a single key to toggle between vertical and horizontal is because I had imagined even more directions beyond those two, diagonal in all four ways etc... we'll see if I try those out xD

Regarding the center start position: that's a bit of a departure from a text editor. This demo is supposed to be like if notepad.exe magically grew another dimension. If the origin is the center then above and left if origin would be outside the document? It doesn't make sense to me.

Thank you for your awesome feedback!!!!

[vunderba]

Yeah I totally see what you're saying. For me if I built a tool like this I would think of it more like the equivalent of "tensors meets mind-mapping node tool" - so the idea of growing multidimensionally from a center point feels more conceptually on-point. :)