From the team the brought you Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, Trogdor the Burninator and Limozeen comes … Viidelectrix for the Wii.
Always nice to see more Wii-specific Flash games … even better when it is neo-retro-coolness like this !
So, hopefully this will be the first in a series of regular posts highlighting Flash games for the Wii. But not just any Flash games … only the ones that actually work well (ie legible fonts, no keyboard requirement) in the Wii Opera browser. Oh, and they have to be fun. Or a least mildly fun.
Here’s one that seems to work okay, despite being, well, about as nerdy as you can get:
Within Range challenges you to correctly file books on the library shelf, using the Dewey Decimal system (play it now!). Yeh … sounds kind of silly, but so did Cooking Mama, and that turned out to be a fun distraction. Proudly brought to you by the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.
(and via the ubercool and totally un-nerdy dudes at The BBPS.)
WiiCade have released version 3 of their Wii Remote API that enables developers to create Flash games using all the buttons on the Wii Remote (well, except “Home”), and the “C” and “Z” buttons on the Nunchuck (but no analog stick control). Control by up to four Wii Remotes is supported, allowing simultaneous multiplayer Flash games on the Wii !! The Flash source code has been released under the free-as-in-freedom LGPL software license to allow any game developer to make use of these great features and allow them to share their homebrew games with the world. Read the rest of this entry »
(see update below)
Knibble.com has been getting a little bit of buzz in the last few days for releasing “5000 Flash games for the Wii”, at wii.knibble.com. I’ve always figured that a small industry of Flash games targeted specifically to the Wii would develop over the next few years, since there a so many Wii’s happily integrated into living rooms all over the world. The market is there to be filled, it’s just a matter of someone working make a decent product. Take for example my favorite Flash application specifically designed for the Wii, moowee.tv. The interface of this social video application fills up the screen nicely on the Wii, doesn’t require any zooming in a out, allows control via Wii Remote buttons and just works.
Sadly, wii.knibble.com is not like this at all. Read the rest of this entry »
