In case you live under a rock, GDC is kicking off this week (that stands for Game Developer's Conference) and it turns out Nintendo enthusiasts have something besides Miyamoto's keynote to look forward to. This week during the event, attendees will be able to get some schooling on how to create titles for Nintendo's new Wii console. To quote the AFP article: "Among its (GDC's) features will be lessons in designing games for Nintendo's popular new Wii video game console with motion-sensitive controllers."The piece then takes a hard left turn into casual games territory, talking of the importance of that market. Still though, it should be interesting to see what kind of demonstrations those who attend the lessons on Wii development receive. How hard could it be to develop with a motion-sensitive control scheme?
Update: Changed headline to reflect organization of this year's GDC event on our end.
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3-05-2007 @ 4:52PM
ghnvt said...
This is good. Hopefully they are going to give out the online dev kits or at least help the third party guys work out some of the kinks in their upcoming games. Getting them up to date on the new ways to program will allow for better games in the future. Nintendo all the way!
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3-05-2007 @ 5:13PM
Sonic_13 said...
This definitely fits with what IGN's Matt Casamassina has hinted at - new, original downloadable via either the Wii Shop Channel or a brand new channel.
Hopefully they release something that could potentially allow anyone to develop their own game. That would be sweet!
Perhaps a revival of the Marionette project?
http://www.n-sider.com/articleview.php?articleid=239
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3-05-2007 @ 5:17PM
Mr Khan said...
I bet "Marionette" falls under the same concept as Super Mario 128, it wasn't a game, merely a Miyamato/EAD project that worked on tapping the capabilities of the GameCube
Possibly involving physics calculations and controls
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3-05-2007 @ 11:26PM
dvillestoner said...
but what about online play. come on now, it's 2007
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3-05-2007 @ 11:32PM
scepia said...
Nintendo is in a horrible situation. They have expectations beyond the sun, but they are limited by the pending stock trade (meaning they can't show anything that would change the stock price a lot). Hopefully they will hand out info and kits to the devs, and can roll out the service once the stock trade is done.
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