Wii game in Flash
My company had a recruitment fair in Finland. So for dragging people to the “booth” we created a Flash game for the Wii.
HiQ core business is consulting with advanced developers (flash/flex/c++/java and so on).
We created the game “Monkey goes to Work”. A quick game based from the idea “Wario Ware – Smooth Moves”.
By using the WiFi-USB adapter on a laptop and a simple web server I could easily use the Wii Opera browser to get access to our own application.
Some problem with the connection because Wii console needs internet connection to be able to find the computer. It works so long you don’t try to test the connection again, could help to restart the Wii console a couple of times.
Wii Opera supports Flash Player 7. One big problem could we the performance, just having some moving animations and transparency making the application slow.
To control the Flash it’s possible to use remote 1 as a ordinary mouse. But to really get something out of it I used JavaScript to connect to the browser API, possible to get all 4 remotes.
I extracted control 2 and push changes into flash player. Some things for example that I could control is X,Y,Z (distance), Roll (rotating remote), Connection status.
Couldn’t get the gyro to work, probably because all the browser movement is based on the IR. So moving remote outside screen will loose updated. But the buttons is going through wiresless.
Possible to get hold of all buttons on the remote and on the nunchuck. But the nunchuck joystick doesn’t respond.
