GameKeyboard Promises To Revolutionize Game Biz

We get our fair share of ‘interesting’ people calling in to the Gamasutra/Game Developer offices, mainly because we have our phone numbers listed in public. And the latest of these would be the inventor who’s started GameKeyboard.com, and is looking to license his patented (or patent pending, not quite sure) use of directional keys to: “Play any PC Video Game or Control any Object in 3 Dimensions using only 4 keys on the Game Keyboard.”
You may be a greater man than I if you fully understand how this differs from the controls used in normal games, so let’s extract a random part of his rather text-worthy (Brandon says it looks like today’s Penny Arcade cartoon) explanation: “Activating the cursor up [?] key followed by the cursor down [?] key accelerates forward, followed by the cursor left [?] key accelerates forward and leftward, and deactivating the cursor left [?] key […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (simonc) and software by Elliott Back