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by tinywind 1 hour ago
I’ll be making this change!

Though I’m worried it’s gonna be tougher for people to find the map and ship logs since space is a natural button to try and press early on

2 comments

Space to me means fire.

You can show the mini-map in a corner, right? Why do you need to toggle it, Slither has it shown at all times.

[delayed]
The whole thing should ideally have a quick modal with hotkeys when you first open it (and a small button to bring it up again if needed).
Modals are the worst ux in games.

If it's only a few buttons anyway you can just show them somewhere as hints while the user isn't giving input or until they used then.

Eg just show a "m for Map\nspace to fire" until the user used each, hiding them each when the m/space is used respectively for that session (session storage so it shows up again if the user comes back later)