Team 21 Prototype Review

Webfishing Hat: Prototype Review

 

To ground our controller in the wacky world of WEBFISHING, we chose to strap our hunk of hardware into a hat like one you can wear in game. As WEBFISHING is a silly game, using this controller is silly experience. Tilting your head to move your character may not be the most comfortable control scheme, but it certainly does make you feel ridiculous! To look left or right, you twist the rotary encoder. By scratching the top of your head (as if thinking), you block a light sensor that toggles the inventory menu open and the tilt controls to mouse movement so you may ponder your next choice of bait. Yelling may not be a common activity during real life fishing, but it is a common occurrence in WEBFISHING when you hook a high quality fish and need to spam click a few hundred times to reel it in. In reference to these moments, as well as for the silliness factor it provides, the left mouse button is tied to a microphone and is held as long as you are making loud noise.

Questions:
How do you feel about the sensitivity of the tilt controls?
Is the camera movement increment from the rotary encoder too much/too little?