#Phoenotopia awakening demo download full#

#Phoenotopia awakening demo download full#

However, around this time I had to pause PC development, because the Switch version became unblocked and now required my full attention. I can probably fix this after I’ve had more time to investigate. Rewired can be agnostic about joypads, which is great because it reduces the workload on my end, but the caveat is that buttons like this will simply be called “Right Trigger”. If using a Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft controller, the Right Trigger is either going to be named ZR, R2, or RT. Finding that perfect balance between joystick and keyboard will be a challenge.)Īnother snag we’ve hit are button names. If a “hold to walk” action existed, it would only make sense for the keyboard column, but not the joypad column. (Rewired’s interface for mapping keyboard and joypads. I could add a separate “hold to walk” button to the keyboard but that introduces an incongruence between the joypad and the keyboard. Thus, there’s no way to “walk” if using a keyboard. However, the buttons on the keyboard do not have sensitivity - they’re either all ON or all OFF. How much you push the control stick will determine whether Gail walks or jogs. For instance, the control stick allows 360 degrees of movement and detects sensitivity. There are also some things that a joypad can do that a keyboard can’t, and vice versa. (my solution was to have a lock screen that confirms you have the necessary inputs to at least return to the rebind menu and fix the controls should they ever be set in so bad a state) One solution for that is to lock a portion of the keyboard to be unmappable and so you’re never without controls that can remap a menu. For instance, how much of the controls do you expose and allow to be remapped? Technically, you could allow so much freedom that you can break the controls. There’s still a lot of design involved concerning controller rebinding. It doesn’t take us all the way there, but it did remove a lot of the headache involved. I found out about a 3rd party library called “Rewired” which is all about supporting a multitude of different controllers, disconnects, reconnects, and so forth. The controls still need to be figured out, but we did make a lot of progress. The first half of July, I threw myself well into the PC port. In the end, I added 1 week to the time I wanted initially as an error buffer in case some things came up - which they did! So August 20 ended up being about just right for us and a neat coincidence to boot. At some point you’re locked in and you can’t change course. And you don’t know how everyone’s moving because they’re also probably considering the same things.

It’s like a minefield - even just one week offset forward or backward could put you into a crowded release slot. I wasn’t particularly aiming for this date - I actually wanted August 14th. You may recognize that August 20th is in fact the 6th year anniversary of the Flash game. And the game itself is set to launch for Nintendo Switch on August 20th. I am happy to announce that the “Reveal and Launch” trailer for Phoenotopia Awakening will drop this morning at 9AM. For once, development has moved on time (sorta).