Guide to Game Development/Settings/Input

The 'perfect game' should allow you to have different input types: keyboard & mouse, gamepad/controller and joystick.

Keyboard & Mouse

Ability to rebind all keys

• When rebinding keys, allow one gameplay action to be bound to two or more keys
• Some games have one key allowed to be linked to multiple actions
• Allow for rebound keys to not only go to keys, but to mouse movement and mouse buttons if they have a custom mouse.
• Allow them to bind 'double-tap' functionality
• Set-ups for different game modes:
  • When on-foot
  • When in a car
  • Etc
• Default presets:
  • Default 1 right-handed
    • Typical preset for a FPS would be:
      • Forward - W
      • Backwards - S
      • Left - A
      • Right - D
      • Jump - Space
      • Run - Left Shift or Double-tap W
      • Crouch - Left Ctrl or C
      • Reload - R
      • Use - E
      • Grenade/Throwing item - G
      • Flash light - F
      • Throw item - Q or \
      • Chat - T or Enter
      • Team Chat - Y
      • Weapon Select - 1-9 or Mouse Wheel
      • See player/scores - TAB
  • Default 2 right-handed
  • Default 1 left-handed
    • Typical preset for a FPS would be:
      • Forward - I or Arrow-Up or Numpad-8
      • Backwards - K or Arrow-Down or Numpad-5 or Numpad-2
      • Left - J or Arrow-Left or Numpad-4
      • Right - L or Arrow-Right or Numpad-6
      • Jump - Space
      • Run - / or Right Shift
      • Crouch -
      • Reload -
      • Use -
      • Grenade/Throwing item -
      • Flash light -
      • Throw item -
      • Chat -
      • Team Chat -
      • Weapon Select -
      • See player/scores -
  • Default 2 left-handed
  • Allow them to save configuration pre-sets (Custom 1)
    • This would be useful if two people played the game

Mouse Sensitivity

• Change normal look-around sensitivity
  • Different sensitivity in the x-axis to the y-axis
• Change aim-down-sight sensitivity
  • Maybe also change aim-down-scope sensitivity
• When set to 100%, it should be the same as their desktop mouse sensitivity (no mouse acceleration/deceleration)

Invert mouse

• Invert in the y-axis
• Invert in the x-axis

Have quick access modes

• Quick save (could be F5)
• Quick load (could be F9)

Gamepad/Controller

When a gamepad/controller is connected, the game should automatically switch the input to the gamepad/controller (without going into the options menu); this means that the main menu won't say something like "press Enter to continue", instead it will say something like, "press A to continue."

Button bindings

• Have a few pre-sets of buttons bindings
• Allow for custom button layouts

Controller vibration

• On
• Off
• Custom vibration strength

Invert gamepad joystick

• Invert left joystick in both the x-axis and the y-axis
• Invert right joystick in both the x-axis and the y-axis
• Invert d-pad in both the x-axis and the y-axis

Joystick/Thumbstick sensitivity

• Different sensitivity in the x-axis to the y-axis for both joysticks on the gamepad.