Spinning, Moving and Shooting

does anyone know why this doesn't work:

holding down 2 keys (UP & RIGHT Arrow) and hitting the space bar repeatedly works fine. But when you do the same with the LEFT arrow the space bar key strokes are ignored?

see capx

Works fine on mine in firefox

It's working for me. chrome

hmm maybe it's a Chrome thing?

nope doesn't work in firefox for me either... could it be my keyboard?

It might be, I see no reason for it not to work, code wise.

I will try it on another computer...

posting the link to the exported version here...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/362 ... index.html

omg... it's my keyboard! it's a pretty new keyboard.. I can't believe it's actually broken... everything else works perfectly.. what a strange problem..

Your keyboard isn't broken as such... it's just a lot of keyboards don't support certain 3-key combinations. Up + Left + Space is a common one.

http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/AntiGhostingExplained.aspx

thanks ramones! I had no idea!

that combination is indeed one that doesn't seem supported on my keyboard.

so this means that it would be a limitation in my game.. some people may have a keyboard that doesn't support those 3 keystrokes... interesting...

I wonder if it's just older keyboards, because the keyboard I am using is from 2007, just because like I the way it types.. still someone playing my game would probably assume it's a game bug.. like I did! I wonder if that's why a lot of people use keyboard-mouse combos. My game is more suited for keyboard only.. so I have no idea what I will do to work around this..