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		Aloisius 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: City simulator I made in Scratch Usually game developers use keyboard scancodes which are layout agnostic rather than the character generated when pressing a key, so it works on dvorak, AZERTY, etc. I don't know if Scratch supports them though. Seems like it would given it's game focus.

turnsout 9 months ago [–]

Whatever the reason, in this case, it's broken

mrheosuper 9 months ago | [–]

yeah it's broken for like 0.000001% of user

kbelder 9 months ago | | [–]

Well, WASD also is slightly broken for most left-handers, at least for games that assume one hand is on WASD and the other on the mouse.

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