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.
Drakton says
April 10, 2012 at 6:31 amYes. 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!
steph says
April 5, 2012 at 3:55 amGrrr, stupid malware!!!
Gregg says
April 4, 2012 at 3:28 pmAnd 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.