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From: "Jon Prestidge  (Jon@surfed.to)" <jon@surfed.to>
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Subject: Re: Obligator
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:28:13 +0100
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Hello Peter

I've refreshed the PAL version now.  Thanks for telling me about it.

> Would it be possible to implement an easier control system?
> Like have the left stick control the player's pitch, spinning
> the player about his centre, and the right stick control direction
movement.

...I may well have an alternative control system that you can select on the
menu (and your suggestion is already brewing somewhere at the back of my
mind).  However I think the default control system will be something like it
is currently (although a bit less touchy with the analogue sticks).  I don't
think I could get away with these type of controls on a commercial game ....
but if I manage to get it on the OPM disc the people playing it will have
gotten the game as a kind-of free-bee so it's an opportunity to get people
to try something a bit more tricky and not so cushy.  I imagine it would be
the kind of thing some people would give-up on the first time they tried it,
but then on some long dark winter night when they are lost for mental
stimilation they might think: "perhaps I'll go back to that weird game on
that OPM disc and see if I can figure-out those damn controls."

Also if I get it on the OPM disc it'll have all the developers menus and
extra technical stats available as a hidden option for people interested in
programming.

Cheers,
Jon