It’s been a little over a week since Stardew Valley ($7.99) arrived on iOS and the productivity level of millions of people around the world plummeted. Yes, bringing a game that’s this life-sucking to a device that you can take with you everywhere was a cruel trick indeed, but I can’t thank the developers enough for doing so. About the only caveat with the mobile version of Stardew Valley was that the game’s default tap-to-move control scheme was not to everyone’s liking. Especially on the iPhone where things were much smaller and “fat-fingering" an incorrect action could be really frustrating. Well, original developer ConcernedApe and publisher Chucklefish have earned quite a reputation for taking in player feedback and being extremely responsive to it, and now the company that they recruited to port Stardew Valley to mobile The Secret Police is following in those same footsteps. Just prior to the game’s official launch the mobile developer responded on Reddit that new control schemes were in the works, and today we have our first look at just what those are. And boy howdy are there a lot of options coming. As outlined on the official Stardew Valley wiki page: Tap-to-move & Attack Joystick

This is the default tap-to-move control scheme but rather than have you auto-attack when confronting enemies in the mines, with this option a special attack control stick will pop up when a weapon is selected and you can drag in an...