(physical analogies can be constructed to justify inversion or non-inversion)

i tend to ignore mouse inversion unless people bring it up, then i usually add a quick toggle in on a per-game basis.

adding in input managers and the like takes work, and people doing freeware games might decide it better to spend their limited time elsewhere. the unity game engine has an input manager by default, but it sucks and, in particular, doesn’t support mouse inversion.

I have never been able to get used to the “push forward to look up” control method favored by about 99% of freeware games.

Why? Because you’re controlling a camera, not a pointer. In real life if you’re standing behind a camera and want to tilt it up, do you push on it? Of course not, that would tilt it down. You pull back on it. Look up at the ceiling. Did your head go forward? No, it went back.

Every single commercial game with mouselook allows you to invert the Y axis. Some games even come with it inverted by default and you have to manually change it if you want it the other way.

Unintuitive controls can kill a game. I’m assuming that the people who write these games want people to play them. So why is so little thought put into the controls?

sudo apt-get install liblwjgl

then run with:

java -jar miniLD.jar -fullscreen