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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2007-03-12 11:36 am
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More Wii games

More Wii-playable Videlectrix games are up. I just got 504 points at Trogdor.

I feel silly being so excited about using the interwebs via Wii; it's like being thrilled about WebTV 10 years ago. But damn, it's running Opera and full-on AJAX applications like Gmail work perfectly. That's cool, man. Even if I can barely read any of the text on my 1950s-tech-level CRT.

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2007-03-13 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't looked into it beyond playing the games and making educated guesses. Many of the games just treat the Wii remote as a mouse, and indeed you can play the games with a mouse on your PC and they work the same.

The Trogdor game involves using the D-pad, and I assume that the Wii browser's D-pad just maps to PC cursor keys, so that's that.

IOW I don't think these games are doing anything special, other than being screen-formatted so that they're the perfect size for the Wii browser, and having Wii-specific on-screen instructions.