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Home / Computing / Legend of Grimrock Devs Implement GUI Change Just to Help One User

Legend of Grimrock Devs Implement GUI Change Just to Help One User

Leland Flynn

    January 29, 2012 By Leland Flynn

    I was browsing through imgur and saw the following image that tells a really heart-warming story. It seems that a user named [HarpoonIPA] on the Grimrock.net forums made a post asking if old-school dungeon-crawler style buttons might be included in the game. The responding dev [Petri] made note that they did not have a UI like that currently set up but, made sure to ask his customer why he wanted such an old-school control scheme. [HarpoonIPA] responded noting that he had a disability and stated that he used a mouth stick to control games. The old-school control style made it easier for him to play. So what did [Petri] do? He immediately implemented an entirely new UI option for one, single user.



    This is game development done right. This man listened to his one customer that had a modest request and took it upon himself to make that customer happy. I am truly inspired by this. I wish this company nothing but the best of luck and will be purchasing their game purely based on this story alone. I tried to contact the developers of the game, but unfortunately their site is down at the moment. Presumably due to the torrent of attention I am sure it must be getting. If I am able to get in touch with for comments I will update this post.

    Read below for the discussion as it took place between the user and the dev.

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    Filed Under: Computing, Thoughts Tagged With: Developers, User Interface, Video Games

    About Leland Flynn

    Leland is a tech enthusiast, board member of the Dallas Makerspace , gamer, maker/DIYer, and writes a blog called this 8-bit life . He currently works as a Data Center technician and freelance IT consultant. Follow him on twitter: @thetanktheory or on Google Plus

    Comments

    1. Drakton says

      April 10, 2012 at 6:31 am

      Yes. My Avast red flag also popped out here. Webmaster: pay attention!
      Anyway… amazing what this dev did. I preordered this game 3 seconds after I read about it. To me this game is a dream come true!

    2. steph says

      April 5, 2012 at 3:55 am

      Grrr, stupid malware!!!

    3. Gregg says

      April 4, 2012 at 3:28 pm

      And whatever company or service is serving ads to this page, is sending malware and trojans as well. Avast popped up when I went here, and another user had to boot into safe mode to run malwarebytes to clean the crap off his machine.

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