As you may know some people reported problems with gamepad, keyboard and mouse using the Oculus Rift. We have been looking for a solution to this problem, and we are sorry to say we will not be able to fix it for MIND.

“Thankfully”, the game is fully compatible with the touch controllers from now and you will be able to play with them as soon as they are released.

Finally, the game is compatible with gamepad if not in VR mode.


Originally MIND implemented a locomotion system called VR Olive, it was promising, it lets some player moves with a gamepad with not so many dizziness. The headsets came out, and the reality was the system was not the best option.

In part because it’s not perfect and not everyone likes it. Movement with gamepad is hard and it’s easy to get dizzy, even with VR Olive. and its dynamic turning system. On the other hand, if we can say there is a “winner” in the best locomotion system race, it’s teleportation.

We wanted to please you, to implement the teleportation system to let you play as much comfortable as you can in VR. But modifying a game is hard. And modifying a game that was already adapted for VR is 4 times harder, and we have to take decisions.

In software development is said that for a given problem, every programmer can find a different approach to solve it. That means that you think about what your game has to do, and then, you design some algorithms to handle the logic, exceptions, control, etc.

Once made, modifying it is usually a pain in the ass, and sometimes it’s impossible to do without breaking it. That was the case with the non-vr-controls and VR.

With VR and motion controllers you need to change a lot of things related of how the game works, the way you handle the ball, the physics and the player itself. Being able to implement these elements forced us to take the hard decision to strip the support for gamepad, keyboard and mouse while in VR.

As I said before, we are sorry to drop it, but we need to focus on making new games. In fact, Annie Amber will launch very soon, and it’s a good example of what we tried to communicate here. Annie Amber is fully compatible with gamepad, keyboard, mouse and motion controllers because it was done from scratch with this in mind (it’s not a joke).