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Wii Opera SDK 3.0 on the Horizon

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Much of the Wii Opera SDK is being overhauled or rewritten from scratch for the upcoming version 3.0 release.  Unfortunately, some of the new features have to wait until the Opera 9.5 build of the Internet Channel becomes available for the Wii.  The new Wii Remote class is available now, as is the Raycasting class, in the preview release.  The new Drawing class makes use of the Canvas::transform function, which is available in Opera 9.5 but not the 9.27 build of the Internet Channel.  You can see it in action on a computer, but the demo does not work on the Wii yet.  Also coming with the 3.0 release will be a dungeon editor for the raycaster so that developers can create their own games.  The raycaster is versatile enough that it can even be used to create on-rails flight sims and 3D side scrollers.