Calling Everyone with a Weird Controller! (Patreon)

If you didn't know, Shield Cat now supports custom keyboard and gamepad configurations from right in the game. It's true! And I need your help!

How to Access

First of all, make sure you have the newest version of Shield Cat (released July 5th, 2021) or later. If you have a copy of Shield Cat through Patreon or I gave you a Steam Key, your client should update the game automatically. If you don't see the update, restart Steam.

If you are playing the Demo version of Shield Cat, please read the instructions at the bottom for how to access the Public Test Demo. Thank you!

What to Do

Since I obviously can't own every controller that exists, I need your help to create control schemes for various controllers. Follow the steps below!

Step 1:

Within Shield Cat, open the Pause Menu and then go to "Options->Input." From there, select either Keyboard or Gamepad, and then pick the appropriate option to configure it. You'll be taken to a screen like this:

Step 2:

After you've created a nice control scheme for your gamepad, make sure it works by saving your changes and testing it out. If it works, go back to this menu and pick "Export INI" at the very bottom. You'll be asked to save the INI file somewhere on your computer. Please do not rename this file, the name is very important!

Step 3:

Reach out to me on Discord or Twitter with the INI file of the input you'd like to contribute. I'm looking for any gamepad of any type, as well as alternative keyboard inputs (for left handed people, people who use IJKL, people who use dvorak keyboards etc.)

Step 4:

That's it! Thank you for helping me out! I will include your configuration file with the game to help the game recognize more gamepads and allow other people to play without configuration. Please note that I have no way to validate the file you send me, so you're on the honor method not to troll me lol

Instructions for Shield Cat Demo players:

If you're not aware already, Shield Cat has a public demo available to test out the newest features. This is a limited demo and, as such, I'm asking everyone who wants to test it out to join my Discord chat so they can give feedback to me directly. This demo version is much newer than the March 2021 demo, and has way more features and changes over that demo. 

To Access:

Join my Discord Chat at this url:

https://discord.gg/NdYQXJUwRd 

Once you're in, after introducing yourself please scroll down to "public-test-zone." Further instructions to access the build are in the pinned message there.

Thank you!