Simplicity rocks! - MichaelHoglund's Blog

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Simplicity rocks!

Posted on March 14, 2009 at 05:48 AM.

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Many people, smart people, has always claimed that the simplest solution is always the best solution. Previously I have been cautiously dubious whenever someone has said that to me. However, after my experience with being in the midst of mouse control development for Power Soccer I will cast future hesitancy aside and proudly proclaim: �Simplicity is rocks!�

How did I get to this stage? It all started right after summer when we stumbled upon a Wii and looked at its controls and how it was transferred on to the screen. Shortly after one of our developers, if I remember correctly, finalman (aka Per Larsson, Perl etc) said something in a Skype chat along the lines of �Why don�t we do the Wii thingy for our game but with the mouse�. And the rest is, as they say, history. Okay, so history and some hard thinking, fiddling with tech demos, more internal discussions and brainstorming, conceptualization, user testing and feedback. I am truly amazed with how taking something and breaking it down to it bare essentials, a mouse and left-clicking, made the gameplay, at least for me who has keyboard "issues", more deep, gave me a feeling of total control and responsiveness.

I also hope that the community will embrace and appreciate the hard work we have put into the mouse control. Until next time nanoo nanoo. Take care!

/Michael

From: http://blog.powerchallenge.com/power...plicity-rocks/