Simulate shake, tilt and multi-touch in Unity WebGl app

Question

I am developing a multi-platform game in Unity.

It works great on Android and also on WebGL (haven't yet checked iOS).

My problem is that in some of the levels I need to use mobile-specific actions like shake, tilt and multi-touch.

Is there any way to simulate this in a WebGL app?

Examples of what I need: Tilt to move an object without touching the object. The idea is to "sail" the object from the top of the screen into a basket at the bottom avoiding some obstacle on the way. Tilt to cause an object to move across the screen

Shake to cause something to break.

Multi-touch to select two objects at the same time.

Answer 1

Tilt to move an object without touching the object. The idea is to "sail" the object from the top of the screen into a basket at the bottom avoiding some obstacle on the way. Tilt to cause an object to move across the screen

What you could do here is use mouse dragging on the background to cause a rotation of the whole scene.

Shake to cause something to break.

Shake the mouse cursor. A good way to detect shaking is to check the difference between mouse positions per frame and count how many times per second the change on the x-axis or y-axis changes from positive to negative.

Multi-touch to select two objects at the same time.

Standard for multi-selection on PC is to use shift+leftclick or ctrl+leftclick to add an additional object to the current selection. But players might not expect that to be possible in your game, so you need to teach them. But then there is the problem that moving the selection will move it in formation. So it won't allow you to do things like moving two objects towards each other.

So depending on what you actually want the player to do, you might have to look for a different UI solution.