Valley 2 Enters Private Alpha -- First Alpha Screens And Video!

[madcow]

Is the second wave of alphas still on track for soonish today by the way?

[x4000]

Within the next hour.

[chemical_art]

Yeah a new build!

[tigersfan]

I'm getting ready to work on the second round of invites.

If you sent me an request, watch your PM inbox.

[LayZboy]

I'm so used to using W,A,S and D as movement keys that I just get confused and this is worse in a battle situation. I will play around with key binds and see if I can come up with something to make it easier.

I suspect others may also find this difficult as W,A,S and D is the most popular layout for movement keys in games. I can't think of any games that use the cursor keys.

Apart from these control issues I'm enjoying the game but it's much harder that the first one or maybe I just need more practice :-)

Maybe it's because I've been playing PC games for too long, but, for me, the cursor keys are very natural, as they used to be the norm. I know it's less used now, but, when I was a kind, using WASD to move would have been very very odd.

Dunno what PC games you've been playing but most games past 1995 use WASD now.

[tigersfan]

I'm so used to using W,A,S and D as movement keys that I just get confused and this is worse in a battle situation. I will play around with key binds and see if I can come up with something to make it easier.

I suspect others may also find this difficult as W,A,S and D is the most popular layout for movement keys in games. I can't think of any games that use the cursor keys.

Apart from these control issues I'm enjoying the game but it's much harder that the first one or maybe I just need more practice :-)

Maybe it's because I've been playing PC games for too long, but, for me, the cursor keys are very natural, as they used to be the norm. I know it's less used now, but, when I was a kind, using WASD to move would have been very very odd.

Dunno what PC games you've been playing but most games past 1995 use WASD now.

I know most do now, and I said as much. Valley 2 does as well, actually, just not for movement.

[madcow]

Alas, I'll need to wait on the mac version to finish before I can test

No worries though, I'll DL it tomorrow/monday depending on when its ready.

[Mánagarmr]

Dunno what PC games you've been playing but most games past 1995 use WASD now.

Oh yes! I play Starcraft, Supreme Commander, Giana Sisters, Dwarf Fortress, Nitronic Rush, Masters of Orion 2, Super Meat Boy and AI War all with WASD. /sarcasm

No, the games that use WASD are primarily first person shooters, which is a rather small part of the gaming market. To be honest, I haven't seen a single platformer that uses WASD lately. Anyone know of any?

[Hyfrydle]

Cargo Commander uses WASD and mouse for shooting and it works really well.

[madcow]

I've seen both used fairly commonly.

[Mánagarmr]

I've seen both used fairly commonly.

I must be playing the wrong games then. Because I honestly can't think of any straight up

[MouldyK]

Dunno what PC games you've been playing but most games past 1995 use WASD now.

Oh yes! I play Starcraft, Supreme Commander, Giana Sisters, Dwarf Fortress, Nitronic Rush, Masters of Orion 2, Super Meat Boy and AI War all with WASD. /sarcasm

No, the games that use WASD are primarily first person shooters, which is a rather small part of the gaming market. To be honest, I haven't seen a single platformer that uses WASD lately. Anyone know of any?

Terraria.

[madcow]

I've seen both used fairly commonly.

I must be playing the wrong games then. Because I honestly can't think of any straight up

Off hand, I can think of both Trine and Awesomenauts have wasd as default control schemes. Braid uses both.

I actually think it might be a case that many computer platformers just support both as default. I don't really think about it myself, heh.

[LayZboy]

Supreme Commander.

If you're not using Strat-zoom in that game you're doing something wrong.

[Lancefighter]

I dont even I ever edge-scrolled in supcom - scrolling in and out is so much easier. Similarly in aiwar, actually.