[Wii 98] Bunnies can play minigames!

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 15:44 schreef Oksel het volgende:
In oktober staat hij er gewoon, klaar. Dat moet wel. Ik ben namelijk 13 oktober jarig..

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 16:33 schreef Xrenity het volgende:

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Ik vrees van niet.

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As well as ushering in a new era of gameplay possibilities for innovation-starved gamers the world over, Nintendo?s new console Wii promises to be a platform for development teams of any size. Many years ago games were made by small groups of developers or even individuals. Eventually, that became almost impossible due to high development costs, making it hard for solo or smaller-sized projects to break through.

Apart from all the other ambitions that come with a new gaming era, Wii also intends to change that. By acting as a platform not only for epic games like Zelda but also for innovative titles more humble in scope, Wii is asking game designers to call upon creativity, rather than needing the safe bet of a pop culture license. Deceptively simple games like Brain Training have shown that small teams can create experiences that capture the minds of millions. For all intents and purposes, the next Tetris could well be right around the corner.

And yet, some even dare to thread further. Meet Greg Szemiot & Greg Nichols of Crossbeam Studios Entertainment, heading a young, humbly sized team of about 30 enthusiastic writers, composers and game designers, based in Illinois, USA. We spoke to the ambitious duo about possessed children, the history of other worlds, and the big ideas they want to develop for Wii.

CSE was born in 1999 when a group of high school friends decided to start writing a game. The project was named Orb, and over the years an entire world was created, with hundreds of years of history, cultures and religions. The project was originally intended to be released on the PC platform. But then Wii came along?

Greg Szemiot: ?When we saw the Wii controller during last year?s Tokyo Game Show, we knew we wanted to shift our ideas to this platform that actually promotes creativity. We felt that using the Wii Remote to explore the worlds we?ve been creating would make the projects we?ve been working on much more immersive.?

Nintendo of Europe: ?Can you tell our members about the different projects you are currently developing??

GS: ?Orb is certainly the big one, followed by Thorn and Darkness. Orb and Thorn are both adventure games with very deep storylines that are still fun even for a quick game, and so we feel that they would fit in well with Nintendo?s strategy. Our fans certainly seem to think so. [ The company website has a thriving community, with over twenty thousand members already, ed.] And then there is Darkness, which is quite different. I wouldn?t necessarily say it?s an adult game, but it?s very much based on the concept of fear.?

Greg Nichols: ?Basically what I want you to feel when you turn off the game is that you?re too afraid to turn the lights off. Think of when you were three years old, and the fear you had of basements, or the attic, or the dark. It?s not the scare of the shock that I?m aiming for, what I want is the actual fear of the things that make you look over your shoulder. When I get afraid, my eyes start to water and a small tear comes out. I want that kind of fear to come out of the game.?

NoE: ?That?s certainly ambitious. How do you intend to instil that kind of fear??

GN: ?Well, I started off by asking around on forums: what scares you? I even took pen and paper to the street and started asking people at random: ?Tell me what your worst fear is.? What is the scariest thing out there?

?One of the answers that I heard the most was ?possessed children?. And what people are afraid of, I want to put in the game.?

GS: ?Which will obviously be more than just possessed children.? [ laughs]

GN: ?Think of it as Zelda meets Resident Evil. I say Zelda because there will be no guns in the game, only melee weapons and objects you can throw.?

NoE: ?Will it be story-driven or should we think of it more as one long scary ride??

GN: ?Oh it?s definitely story-driven. The world has been over-run by the forces of darkness, and it?s humanity?s last chance to turn the tide. And essentially, it is a story about self-discovery, unravelling your own past.?

GS: ?A lot of emphasis will be on character interaction, but we don?t want to make the game too scripted, it?s up to the players. We want to lead them slightly, otherwise they will never finish the game, but we want to give them the freedom to go explore the world, rather than going through level after level.

?This is something that characterizes all of our projects. There?s a section in Orb that has about eight different ways to get through it.?

GN: ?So along the line there will also be lots of side quests in Darkness. There will be branching paths throughout, determining the course of the game. But most of the time you will be allowed to travel back to where you were before.?

GS: ?Except that we?re trying to make it so that what you?ve seen was so scary that you don?t want to go back.? [laughs]

Check your VIP Lounge next week for the second part of our interview with Crossbeam Studios Entertainment, in which they talk about Thorn and their magnum opus Orb.

Disclaimer: Crossbeam Studios Entertainment is currently looking for a publisher, so there are no specific details regarding a potential release of their projects as yet.

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 20:52 schreef Bat het volgende:
heeft iemand de wii al gepre-ordered ergens anders dan bij de bartsmit? ik hoorde dat het ook bij nedgame kon, maar kan niks vinden :s ben aan het twijfelen voor een pre order daar of op de launchdag zelf naar de mediamarkt gaan...

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 21:57 schreef Oksel het volgende:
Ik wacht even tot de launchdatum, dan is er meteen een prijs en meer info over een eventueel pre order pakket..

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 22:32 schreef Bat het volgende:

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hmm, en wat is dan het nut van een pre order?

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 20:52 schreef Bat het volgende:
heeft iemand de wii al gepre-ordered ergens anders dan bij de bartsmit? ik hoorde dat het ook bij nedgame kon, maar kan niks vinden :s ben aan het twijfelen voor een pre order daar of op de launchdag zelf naar de mediamarkt gaan...

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 23:21 schreef Erwtensoep het volgende:
PS3 vs Wii

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 23:21 schreef Erwtensoep het volgende:
PS3 vs Wii

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 23:12 schreef depax het volgende:

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Ik heb hem gepreordered online via rembours afgeleverd bij mij thuis.
http://www.gameshop.nl/Gameshop.php?cSite=2&cLayout=6&c
Page=56&cId=0&cForm[product_id]=5141
is de directe link.

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 00:56 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:

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Ik zou iets echt niet online bestellen, ben altijd bang dat ik het dan later binnenkrijg dan de meeste winkels hem verkopen

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 09:51 schreef McGilles het volgende:
Mijn vriendin vertelde gisteren dat ik de Wii cadeau krijg van haar, wat een schatje

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 22:32 schreef Bat het volgende:

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hmm, en wat is dan het nut van een pre order?

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Avatar: The Last Airbender (THQ)
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft)
Blitz: The League (Midway)
Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
Cars (THQ)
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (Atari)
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Square Enix)
Elebits (Konami)
Excite Truck (Nintendo)
Far Cry (Ubisoft)
GT Pro Series (Ubisoft)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Square Enix)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
Madden NFL 07 (EA)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Activision)
Metal Slug Anthology (SNK)
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Nintendo)
Monster 4x4 World Circuit (Ubisoft)
Need for Speed: Carbon (EA)
Open Season (Ubisoft)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft)
Red Steel (Ubisoft)
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (THQ)
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Sega)
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Activision)
Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Atlus)
Wii Sports (Nintendo)

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 11:21 schreef Chocobo het volgende:
Wat moet ik van Dragon Quest verwachten?

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 18:26 schreef alex4allofyou het volgende:
Heeft iemand zich hier reeds afgevraagd waar Braintraininggames blijven voor de Wii?
Ze moeten die hype gewoon doortrekken naar de Wii en wel meteen met de launch.

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 18:26 schreef alex4allofyou het volgende:
Heeft iemand zich hier reeds afgevraagd waar Braintraininggames blijven voor de Wii?
Ze moeten die hype gewoon doortrekken naar de Wii en wel meteen met de launch.

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Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2006 23:21 schreef Erwtensoep het volgende:
PS3 vs Wii

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 18:33 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:

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Leipzig

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 18:53 schreef Cadfael het volgende:

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Lol die is echt wel lachen zeg. hehe dat mensen hun tijd hierin steken zeg.

maarja ik wil de Wii nou niet vergelijken met een goedkope slet eigenlijk

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 18:33 schreef MMaRsu het volgende:

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Leipzig

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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 19:36 schreef Tomasso het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 19:36 schreef Tomasso het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2006 20:10 schreef kipknots het volgende:

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Krijg je die er ook bij?

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Op zondag 13 augustus 2006 08:10 schreef depax het volgende:
dat is een custom made fan art ad.
Hij is dus niet echt

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Op zondag 13 augustus 2006 09:27 schreef Bot13 het volgende:

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Hij's wel echt, hij's alleen niet van nintendo

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Op 23 augustus zal Nintendo een uur durende presentatie geven die de naam ‘’Wii Prove our Promise’’ heeft gekregen.