Key bindings: The importance of anatomy and psychology in determining optimal selections
Welcome to the UltrabookReview guide to… binding keys?! I know what you’re thinking. “Do we really need a guide on how to bind keys?” Please hear me out: I love books and I love film, but I’ve become an even bigger fan of the medium of video games when it comes to crafting impactful experiences. Alien: Isolation, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Resident Evil 4, Eternal Darkness, Katana Zero, Mass Effect, Amid Evil, Unreal, and Marathon are just a few titles/series that I would happily compare with the experience of reading Austin, Asimov, Camus, Dostoevsky, Orwell, Hemmingway, Tolkien, Tolstoy, Vonnegut, and the like. A key reason for this is that games are a medium where the audience has a level of agency: they can make choices that have consequences. In turn, this allows for unparalleled immersion and increased impact on the player. The fact that games require the audience to assume varying levels of control is precisely why the topic of human interface/controls...