I just played Spectrail on desktop Chrome and the controls are strange. Often the character doesn't move in a straight line, sometimes it drifts in a direction I didn't press, and it is able to run into its own trail when there's only one orb (which should be impossible, at least with classic Snake). I know the game doesn't really sit on a grid, but when I press down and the character goes down-right, that makes it near impossible to play.

I'm using the arrow keys. My mouse cursor isn't over the game, nor is there any clicking, I tried using the mouse to play and that seems to work fine, so I don't think it's the game registering non-existent clicks.

it's probably worth pinging about this on Spectrail (+ Tubular Tiles update). the game didn't seem to be doing this as of a few days ago, but i checked it out and here's what i noticed:

• the character does still seem to be moving in a straight line, at least for me.
• due to the way the trail moves in this game, you have always been able to hit your own tail even with a single orb; however, the hitboxes in the remade game seem bigger than before, so it's more likely to happen now than it used to.
• the trail orbs move at a very, very slightly different rate than the character. this only became noticeable after i had amassed a fairly large trail, likely exacerbated whenever i would rapidly alternate a vertical and horizontal input (e.g. up-left-up-left-up-left). after a certain point, their spacing stopped being uniform; instead, some clustered together while others trailed further behind. additionally, because they were taking the horizontal and vertical movement at different rates, the trail began to bow in certain places, becoming slightly curved and slanting off the X and Y axes. this is likely the biggest contributor to the "wobbly" controls you're describing.

UPDATE: just tested it again and this time i encountered a different issue... i teleported, as explained in the screenshot below.

I suppose if the trail orbs move slightly differently than the character, it would make it look like the character was drifting in a direction.

I've also run into myself if I made a sharp turn as well. (e.g. going right, move up, move left, run into tail)

I've posted on the thread you mentioned. Thanks!

I thought I was the only one having this happen to me cause of Chrome, but yeah, every time I try to go in a straight line in the game, it immediately turns around by itself at times and automatically ends the game, or if I go next to a coal from a small distance, it somehow ends the game.