Topic: DESCENT FOR WiiWare ANNOUNCED

[Crash]

I think that sounds like the best option and very intuitive.

[Scyphi]

How do you go forward then? Or backwards for that matter?

Admittedly, that's probably the biggest reason why I'm interested in D14Wii, so to get to try out playing the game with the motion-sensing Wiimote. You can't do that with your PC, y'know.

...

Well, okay, with a little rigging up, I've heard you can, but this way I don't have to do any rigging.

And anyway, Descent is still Descent, and as the fan that I am, I feel obligated to support it anyway possible.

[Crash]

Right at first I thought: "Well, that's a stupid question! You just push it towards the screen to go forwards and pull it away to go back".
And a split-second later I thought: "That's gonna get insanely annoying if you have to keep waving it towards the TV to cruise forward.

So, now that strikes me as a very good question!

[VANGUARD]

part of the reason I never got into the Wii games. my sister knows I love Call of Duty, so she got Call of Duty 3 on the Wii.
I had to keep my hand up at chest level to shoot the germans. If I dropped my arm, the gun drops.
VERY ANNOYING!! "MUCH EASIER" on a PS3, or XBox, PC..

[Crash]

Much better than RL, rather than holding up a rifle you can let both arms rest on a desk and slouch back in your chair.

[VANGUARD]

when my sister, friend and I first started playing Wii Bowling, we'd take our steps and pretend to actually throw the ball. at some point, I think it was my friend, that just sat on the couch and motioned throwing a ball and it worked. all that work we did for nothing 

[Darkflamewolf]

I always imagined it being controlled like this:
Control stick - up/down = accelerate and reverse //  left/right = slide left/right

In case people are missing the point. Accelerate and reverse IS going forward and back. You use the control stick for that. I already accounted for all manner of movement.

[Foil]

I already accounted for all manner of movement.

Sorry, DFW, you didn't account for up/down slides.

Without those, there's no trichording.  Can't have a Descent title without trichording. 

[VANGUARD]

I don't have a descent title?  :'(

[Matthew]

The problem with moving the control stick to move your ship is that you have a very limited range of motion (compared to a pyro at least). You can only move your hand so far forward before you hit the edge of your reach (or the TV if you walk forward).

[Darkflamewolf]

Ah Foil, quick change then: control stick is the sliding keys, all directions. Z button is reverse, C button is accelerate. The bombs are shifted to the down on the control pad. Switching weapons is left/right on the control pad. With pressing up to toggle between switching between primaries or secondaries. Does that fix things?

[Scyphi]

Sounds good to me, in fact I like the sound of that control scheme even better than the first.

[Foil]

IHH, you're correct about using the motion-sensing for movement - it won't work well because of the limited range of motion.  However, I assume that players will be able to use the pointing/aiming functionality for rotations, which I think would work well.

DFW, that's pretty close to what I would choose for a Wiimote control scheme.  In fact, it's not too far from what I use on PC (thumb on a D-pad for slides, forward/back on left hand, rotations and firing controls on the right).

[Matthew]

You use a gamepad, Foil? I tried that once, could never get the hang of it. A joystick is what I've always used, and pretty much all I can use. It's too hardwired in my head to use anything else.

[Foil]

You use a gamepad, Foil?

Oh heck no.  I've tried using a gamepad (PlayStation Descent), and it just doesn't work well.

As I posted in another thread, I use a Belkin N52te controller + MS Sidewinder 3DPro joystick on PC.