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A major API change will occur in the next version

In the next version, all glue code will be removed.

Two kinds of inputs:

• button
• axis

Anything can be an axis, anything can be a button.
All mappings will be runtime configurable
Mappings will be able to be saved and loaded from JSON

DOM events can also be hooked to buttons and axis, which will solve the mobile touch button problem.

A package will be created using exponent-ts and gameinput-ts as dependencies, providing
a user input mapping panel which can be mounted anywhere in the DOM at any time, and can have events fired to trigger an input manager instance (or several) changed to match.

I've used this project is way more apps than games at this point,
I'm thinking of renaming to something like procedural-web-input or something similar.

Unfortunately I'd have to do annoying things to the repo and npm install location,
not thrilled about that.

pointerAxisScale, gpAxisScale, uiAxisScale

Need to add check for when no gamepad is available from perspective of browser API

Simply commenting this out fixes the issue.

Having axis mapped to both keyboard, touch, and gamepad will mean that gamepads can have their dead zones interfere with setting the input value.

Things that can be done to mitigate this:

• get highest value from all the inputs of an axis, return that
• add dead zone configuration per gamepad axis (and possibly touch as well)

Due to this specification in snowpack, importing the library fails due to mod.js exporting typescript types.

I can try and make a PR, but basically what makes it work is ensuring mod.js only exports references to actual JS code, such as GameInput and leave the rest up to the .d.ts files.

Currently, axes are only mapped to gamepad axes, but mouse wheel, and mobile touch axes (not implemented as of yet), and even keyboard buttons should be able to be mapped to axes.

Something like this for keyboards:

GameInput.get().createAxis ("fwd-bwd")
.addKey("w", 1.0)
.addKey("s", -1.0)
.addGamepadAxis (13);