I thought it’d be fun to make a non-traditional menu interface for the homepage of http://wiioperasdk.com, so I ported over the FPS engine from the demo/widget. All thumbnails within the homepage hallway are hyperlinks to existing demos and games. Enjoy!
The dungeon editor for the Wii Opera SDK’s raycasting class is under development now. To play around with a very early version, visit here. Currently the dungeons cannot be saved or loaded, but they can be edited and viewed by clicking on texture images. The final version will offer the following:
The following features have been added to the Raycasting class:
With these added features, the possibility exists to create games in the genres of on-rails shooter and 3D sidescroller.
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.
The first demo of the Wii Opera SDK raycasting dungeon class is available for play at http://wiioperasdk.com/wall.html. Features in this beta are as follows:
I will be tweaking the engine and writing documentation for it throughout the day.
