[BETA] Controller support

Hey y'all! 👋 You may remember that we've been working on proper Steam Deck support. As a side effect of that, we're adding general controller support too 🤗🎮️

Before we make it official, we'd love to hear from you. While we do have hands, and we did our best to roll, boop, and pat them all over PS4, Xbox and Steam Deck controllers, we trust that you'll do that more expertly.

Let us know what you think about the default controller mapping, and please poke us if you encounter any usability issues 📝

Note on left vs right triggers

A likely thing that might throw some folks off is that we've put the primary interaction ("left mouse click") on the left trigger, while it might be expected on the right. We found it physically tricky to use the right joystick for precise manipulation in the game while also holding the right trigger at the same time, so we put them on separate hands. If you find that a different configuration works better for you, let us know!

Testing this beta patch

If you'd like to help out and opt into the beta, go to Tiny Glade in your Steam Library, then Properties → Betas → Beta participation → Select "beta-1_12_0".

Unlike some of the other betas, no shenanigans are needed with save files.

Please note that if you've previously played using the controller, you may need to switch to the new official layout.

What's there

• All the menus and UIs can now be navigated using controllers: DPad, A/B, L1/R1.
• The same is also true for the keyboard: Arrow keys, Enter/Esc, PgDown/PgUp.
• There's now two action sets in Steam Input, one for gameplay, and one for the menu.
• The action sets expose a whole bunch of extra controls.
• The default controller layout uses those actions instead of emulating mouse/keyboard interactions.

What's not there yet

There's a few things that we'll address in future patches:

• Tutorials still only show keyboard/mouse controls. We still need to extend our code to add support for acquiring the correct icons from Steam. Meanwhile, you can check the bindings in Steam's own controller mapping menus.
• There's a bunch of new strings that we haven't yet localized to other languages.
• If you change the toolbar alignment in settings, you'll need to restart the game, or controller mapping will be all borked.
• Hot-plugging of controllers doesn't work, and if you have multiple controllers attached, only one is recognized.

Feedback

You're welcome to share it in this post's thread 💛 Thanks a lot :3

Love,
Tom & Ana