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Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024 (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Animal Well is his game of the year, with runner ups being Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers, Arco, Nova Drift, Ballionaire, and Mouthwashing.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Animal well is great, but still has one massive problem; the keyboard controls can't be rebound, which is an absolutely unforgivable miss in 2024. Beat the game but had to use a controller... I really don't understand why he still hasn't added this basic feature.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Quake was released in 1996 and if I recall correctly at the time the arrow keys were the standard but one famous Quake pro player used WASD and it helped launch it to today default.

My point is, I don't think it was ever OK to not have customizable keyboard controls, and having it also give you permission no be perfect in your chosen default. I understand not including the option to have multiple keys assigned to the same control (although I don't excuse it because it is not rocket science), but not have configurable controls at all? It was unforgivable in the 2000 and it is exponentially more unforgivable today.