Despite having been asked for it nearly four years ago, you can finally play Bloodjak with a gamepad!

There is a mechanical difference between playing with the keyboard and playing with the gamepad: the gamepad joystick uses vector math, while the arrow keys do not, meaning that, when playing with a keyboard, you will travel faster diagonally than you do orthogonally.

Ideally, this asymmetry would not exist. However, it is too late for me to change the keyboard controls, as they came first and have been present in the game for four years. The advantage to the keyboard player is slight and does not outweigh the extra finesse granted to the gamepad player. It is what it is.

Someone please beat Teapawncha’s high score.

GAMEPAD CONTROLS:
Left Stick: Move
A: Shoot
B: Jack out
Y: Quit
Start: Pause