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> This game runs in desktop browser only as computer mouse is required for precise control

What if I have a mouse connected to my phone?

I wonder if phones have cursor support. Obviously they have to for touch-based text editing, but it feels different. Touch screens inherently have dead zones with no input, a cursors position persists. I imagine there are a couple of gotchas if you were to try to implement this yourself. Fun to think about.

They do, both iOS (and iPadOS) and Android.

You are correct that it is pretty interesting how they went around implementing the interface. Look up some YouTube videos if this interests you.

Another clever thing is that you can connect an iPad to your Mac and control both with the same mouse, jumping over screen to screen with the cursor (dragging files, etc).

Android does, at least.

iOS does too. Might have to enable it in Accessibility settings, IIRC.

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