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Post by alexandgruntz on May 24, 2013 19:05:08 GMT -8
Since I recently bought a Surface Pro, I thought I'd have a go at playing Gruntz without a mouse  Well, I can say it actually workz rather well, as long as you use the stylus. Touch is playable, but tricky because of right-clicking, which means you have to tap and hold to move a grunt (the stylus has a button for right-click). Currently up to Stage 4 of Trouble in the Tropicz, playing with the stylus only 99% of the time. (Note: no Gruntz doesn't work in Windows 8. I'm using a Windows XP virtual machine to play.) |
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Post by Perfect Grunt on May 25, 2013 0:28:41 GMT -8
Well, that's interesting. I've already tried to play Gruntz with my Bamboo, but it keeps just shaking the in-game mouse. When you tap and hold the stylus for a right click, is it registered as a left click at first? It could be nice to work out a solution for the left-right-click question, especially for DizGruntled: How could the game be played with touch gestures? Scrolling should be okay with standard swipe gestures. Use a tool or toy: This is getting more difficult because of the lack of Mouse-Over Effects (e.g. the animated shovel that appears as a mouseover effect of a hole when your active grunt has got a shovel). That is clearly something worth thinking about.  |
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Post by alexandgruntz on May 25, 2013 1:04:33 GMT -8
When you tap and hold the stylus for a right click, is it registered as a left click at first? Nothing is registered until the stylus has been lifted from the screen - if it was held long enough, it registers as a right-click The cursor does appear when using the stylus, so you do get mouseover animationz. |
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Post by Perfect Grunt on May 26, 2013 0:47:46 GMT -8
The cursor does appear when using the stylus, so you do get mouseover animationz. Okay, that is good! But for a broader approach with just touching since afaik most touch devices do not offer a stylus, it is more complicated: They would need to offer that "proximity to the screen" thing and even more complicated: The so-called "fat finger problem", which means that your finger isn't transparent so that you cannot see what yuo are trying to touch. For the use with a stylus it could be interesting if there are screens that recognize the two ends of the stylus so that one could use one as left and one as right click. |
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