Controls guides
Lasso, tap and fall back; the mouse and the keys; telling teams apart.
- How touch screens change real-time strategy
Why strategy games have struggled on phones, what a finger cannot do that a mouse can, and the design choices that make a real-time strategy game work by touch.
- Lasso, tap, fall back: Dot Conquest's touch controls
The three gestures that run every battle on a phone: the lasso decides who, the tap decides where, and a double tap on your city calls them home.
- Mouse and keyboard controls for Dot Conquest
Every mouse button and key in the browser version: choosing dots, sending them, falling back, control groups, the camera, scores, pause and the key list.
- Team colours and colour-blind patterns in Dot Conquest
How Dot Conquest keeps every side readable without relying on colour: patterns on land and dots, marks beside numbers, and words for an ally.