WiiFlash Games

(pre)Introduction
Today is a great day, and a great moment, today i will share with all of you guys a little game, yeah i know there are tons if not millions of games made in flash, but i think this new kind of games will bring more audience not only wii games but wiiFlash games.
Yes as you heard it, Flash is now installed in most computers all over the world and all those computers have mouse and…keyboard but there is something that was lacking something that will introduce PC gamers to the console gaming….all this thank to a little device called (by myself) wiimoto why wiimoto? i decided to call it in a different way because when used by the wii it is colled wiimote so if you ask a wii gamer “hey do you have a wiimote?” he will answer yes man, but what if you ask “hey do you have a wiimoto?” he’ll say “well a wiimote you mean?” YES is a wiimote BUT for PC purposes.

Introduction
What about the game??, yes the game, this is a little game created to show some of the features inside the wiiFlash server (yes you have to use the wiiflash server), this features include:rumbling,recognizing sensor-bar, x,y,z coordinates and much more such as nunchuck etc.
This little game is like the typical game you find in local fairs, there are some others already made in flash that let you play with your mouse, but you do not feel the action of trying to shoot to one of the ducks or if you missed a duck, a very simple game that even little children can play and understand easily, now there are more games made for wii such as the wiicade site but you have to turn the wiimoto to act as a mouse and things such as rumble or turning the lights on are not available (at least in the ones i played) sooo, what about desingning wiiFlash server games? Yes!! wiiFlash server games, you actually don´t need the wii and they can be as much fun as using the real wii!! (continue below the game)

The game
Controls:
Mouse shoots.
SpaceBar starts or ends the game.
For the wiimote read at the bottom

The facts
Papervision3D is intended to cover all those white spaces (3D scenarios) and in case you preffer 2Dimensions there are a lot of ideas in 2D which can be ported too.
AS an example, let’s imagine a game of cavemen, they are hungry and need to get food then they see this huge mamut and then it’s your turn you have to use rocks, and archer, or even threw his lance measuring the force applied to the wiimoto!!! yes lots and lots of possibilities!!!

Creating a game
So i did a little game using the wiiFlash server, some of the obvious questions could be: is it difficult?, does it work? what about AS3 in games?,does it take much time?;and the answers could be:no at all Joa and Thibault did an excellent job when creating the wiiFlash server API thus it is so easy you won’t believe you are creating a game for your wiimoto;yes it works it actually distracts you in the process you get excited by the idea of having a “personal” game; the API actually made me learn AS3 so it was more a funny training than a reading-boring learning;nope it doesn’t take much time actually i took me a whole day creating the ducks game (remember i was also learning AS3).

Things that could be great
If you watched the video you know i suggested adding a special function or something that could let us “click” in a certain point, why? well most of the games uses the click as the “primary action” so this could be a great advantage, in the ducks game you can see that sometimes you do not even touch a duck and press “B” and it disappears, this happens because i had to use ‘hitTestObject’ and it seems to be using the whole bound square.
Rumbling is great, for example when I first thought the game it was such a great idea rumbling the wiimoto when “shooting” but i discovered it makes the computer (or flash) run slowly hence you missed some ducks, so for now let’s use it as a ID to identify current player.

What’s next?
Yes the obvious question, what is next? so someone did a game for wiiFlash and what? well next steps are… create (maybe slowly but carefully) games that actually interacts with the user, i have in mind a 2D game (sorry but a secret) that i will try to make the user literally gets up from his seat to play… maybe i will post my ideas so you let me know what do you think.

Game and Sources
IF you want to play the ducks game with your wiimote you will need:

if you want to see the source files you can download them here; i commented the “connect()” function for the web version so that it doesn’t generate errors