@noiob @Felthry it would definitely take some practice, which is not something you can usually say about using a game's menus

@monorail @noiob to be fair, dwarf fortress's menus take practice anyway

ui design is not toady one's forte
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@Felthry @noiob i heard somewhere that he has plans to clean up the ui and make the game more accessible

but he wants to do that last so that he doesn't have to do it more than once as things change

so maybe in 2070 it will have a better ui :P

@monorail @noiob that makes sense

as things stand it's nigh unplayable without things like dwarf therapist though
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@Felthry @monorail might be sooner than you expect! current effort is to release DF on steam, and for that the menus all need to be redone to make sense to somewhat more normal ppl

@Felthry @monorail you can map a staggering amount of keypresses, macros, whatever to the Steam Controller with key combos and the like, you can even map touch-based menus that'll pop up a visual indicator when used

@Felthry @monorail seems like someone's already done it and it works for them https://reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/3u975i/steam_controller/

@noiob @Felthry hm that visual indicator might actually make it work a lot better than i was imagining, you could basically design an emulated controller ui if i'm understanding you correctly

@monorail @Felthry yeah, basically. Valve's CS:GO config maps stuff like votes, opening the buy menu… to a grid on the left touchpad. They also support custom icons. It'd be a bunch of work to set up though

here's an example for the radial variant https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/steam_controller/radial_menus