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2.8 User interface

2.8.1 A reduced set of keys

Liquid War 6 can be controlled using a reduced set of keys. This is to make the game more portable and allow possible ports to platforms where a full keyboard is not available. Depending on the graphics backend, exact mapping might change, they should be obvious and intuitive.

Those keys are:

2.8.2 Combining mouse, keyboard and joysticks

It's also possible to control the game with the mouse only, or with a joystick. By default the interface will trap all events and respond on any of these possible devices.

The mouse follows these rules:

The joytick bindings is done as follows:

What these buttons are exactly on your joystick depends on your hardware and driver. Note that Liquid War 6 converts any analog joystick input to a digital pad-like information.

2.8.3 Quit with F10

There's also an (almost) hardcoded shortcut which will quit the game immediately, or at least as quickly as possible, without any prompt or warning.

It is the F10 key.

Think of this feature as the procastinator's “whoops, here comes my boss!!!” emergency function.