That's a good point. I've been doing Ludum Dare for a while now and it has only deepened my respect for games with good controls. For the last jam, I didn't s

That's a good point. I've been doing Ludum Dare for a while now and it has only deepened my respect for games with good controls. For the last jam, I didn't spend nearly as much time on control feel as I usually do and I got a bunch of negative feedback for it. For another example, people criticize Unity for games with poor feel, but what's really happening is that Unity has enabled a bunch of new developers to make games with less effort, and that includes spending less effort on getting the controls to work well. All Unity did was lower the bar to entry. Take a look at Quake III, in bg_pmove.c PM_Accelerate https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/master/code/game/bg_pmove.c#L240 https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/master/c... This is the code that translates player input into acceleration for the physics system to handle. Notice the code blocked out with #if which fixes a bug but the fix isn't used because it "feels bad". The bug lets you accelerate to ridiculous speeds with the right pattern of movement.