The Worst Way to Play World of Warcraft
So… I was watching a podcast with William Osman, and he mentioned how people should just do things because the idea is dumb. There doesn’t always need to be a why. So, I may make this a reality some time in the future, but for now I am just going to explain it here because throwing it into the void seems to not be a terrible idea.
I want to make World of Warcraft the most all over the place game ever. I want to use different controllers to either improve or worsen my raiding and dungeon-ing experience. The idea came to me when I got a Stream Deck yesterday. What if I set up my stream deck so that I could use all my WoW spells on it? That way I wouldn’t have to worry about going through my rotations with switching between alt and shift hotkeys and accidentally opening up file manager by hitting win+3. Yes, I did not know that you could open file manager with just win+3. I found this out during a raid, and subsequently died in the process. Oops I guess.
Note to self: maybe get something to put on the alt key so that I know that it is what I’m hitting like a jewel sticker or something.
Anyways, my current ideas for alternate controllers are: a dance dance revolution mat, those buttons that say things like “that was easy,” pitches (like when I sing or play a tone between these frequencies, use this spell), a midi keyboard (or a keyboard in general), a broadcast switch board, and maybe color hues from like a light or something.
So with the first couple, my main idea came from pipe organs since you use feet when you play them. Sometimes when I’m playing WoW I wish I had a third arm so that I could dedicate one to my mouse, one to movement, and one to spells and consumables. That would be nice. It would probably also help boost my dps, and I wouldn’t have to worry about holding everyone back.
The way it would work is I would associate each button, pattern, hue, pitch, or whatever, to a hotkey like alt+3 letting me use that button for that spell. With the DDR map, I would have to do multiple input combinations since I would need more than 4 buttons. Maybe look into a Pump it Up mat instead since that would give me 25 combinations as opposed to the 16 from DDR. After all, I only have 2 feet. I think the most difficult 2 would be the color hue and “that was easy” button ones. Just because I’d have to code for color recognition in the camera or maybe setup a program that does that internally. The button one would require more physical engineering work to be done instead because I’d have to hook up the buttons to sensors that would then send a signal to my computer. The DDR mat already has something like that built in and would just require a bit of fenagling to get my computer to be able to read it. The tone one would just use a tuner to get the pitch, and would then feed the correlated input into my game. And finally, the midi keyboard and broadcast switch board are pretty much the same with both having basically just programmable buttons.
But yeah, that’s the most recent YouTube idea I have. I will probably try and add something to this blog once a week or just whenever I have a YouTube idea I want to write out for my future self.