Wednesday 11 April 2007

My first PC Wiimote and Nunchuk Game

I have done it.

I am so proud.

To be honest anybody looking at it may think that it looks like a load of old pants, but I dont care. There was a fair bit of work involved, but I have completed my first game using a Wiimote and a Nunchuk to control it.

At the moment I havent sorted out the 3D engine license to mass release it so it is playable for people who have a license for the TV3D engine only.

I intend to let anybody have the source code who wants it and who wants to play around with it and make their own additions to it. If you do make any changes then could you please let me know either in this blog or on my website to let me know what other people want from wiimote games.

Anyway the game:
It is basically a punching game. I thought along the lines of the punching games at an arcade where you punch as hard as you can and see the results on the screen.
When you start up the game you will see a smiley face and a couple of boxing gloves and you punch using the Wiimote and the Nunchuk to cause damange to the face.


I want to take this oppurtunity to thank Terry Bailey for supplying the 3D boxing gloves as I am not very good at 3D modelling. I may colour them in at some point if this game starts to prove popular with anybody.
After a determined amount of damage has been caused then you will get a final score on how long it took you to knock Mr Happy out.
You can walk around using the Wiimote direction buttons and you can look around using the Nunchuk Joystick.
Because the Wiimote and Nunchuk are secondary controls then you can also control the game using the PC (using the mouse and cursor keys to move and look around and using the I and P buttons to punch).

It has taught me a lot, especially the intricacies that are involved with understanding the acceleration readings that comes from a controller and translating that information to an in game action.

I may take this game further and add multiple faces that you can hit, and make the images editable so that you can use your own images to punch which might make a nice little stress reliever for some people. I may leave it here and move onto a different game and try out some other types of Wiimote and Nunchuk motions. I havent decided yet.

But if you want to have a play, then please feel free to get the game from my Wiimote Games section of my fun website here:

If you want to leave any comments or ideas then please feel free to leave them on the message section of my website here: Or email me through our Main Software Development Website contacts page here:

Thanks,

L.

2 comments:

InStars said...

The download link is not working!

Lindsay said...

yeah I never re registered the URL www.altfuzion.com so I have reset the links to go to the actual URL which is: http://www.altfuzion.com-a.googlepages.com

Cheers,

L