I might be asking this too early in development, but I'm thinking of making a Zelda-style with gamepad controls and am wondering what a good layout for the gamepad would be. The main issue is that it has standard "move with left stick" "rotate camera with right stick" and I have a melee attack with short cooldown (right shoulder, top button) and projectile attack with long cooldown (right shoulder, bottom button). I also want a jump button and a "lock on target" button.

Intuition says that you don't want to force the player to take their thumbs off the joysticks to do things like jump and lock-on that they would want to be able to do while moving, so that made me think of using the left shoulder buttons for jump and lock-on. But I want people to be able to jump around while staying locked on to targets, and pressing both top and bottom shoulder buttons simultaneously feels awkward to me. I alternatively tried making it so you jump by pressing in on the left joystick and/or lock-on by pressing in on the right joystick, which seems meh because 1) accidentally pressing in on the left stick when you just want to move but not jump happens too much when I try it, and 2) for the right joystick I want pressing in while moving the stick up or down to control zoom instead of lock-on.

I uploaded an HTML5 export of the game that has tentative gamepad controls (not yet shown on the in-game instructions because I'm still wondering about a good layout) where the right shoulder buttons are slash / fireball and you can do jumping or lock-on either with left shoulder buttons or by pressing in on the joysticks (zooming by pressing right joystick while moving it up or down is also incorporated in this version) so people can play it to see what I'm talking about - there's a room with test dummies to lock on to and attack after you get the other controls down, and that's the last room of the current draft. You would need to run this gamepad configuration thingy for NewGrounds to configure your gamepad once if you've never done it before and then you can try playing it here.