Lucasarts Making Lightsaber Game for Wii?
- Scribbled on May 31st, 2007 by Devin Grimes
- Filed in Nintendo Wii, Rumor Mill
Financial website Fin24 recently posted an article not too dissimilar from any other one detailing the Wii’s mainstream success and appeal. Look carefully, however and you’ll notice this little tidbit:
The head of the LucasArts, the game division for “Star Wars” series creator George Lucas, told AFP a Wii game that lets players wield virtual light sabers is on the horizon.
We all knew it was bound to happen at some point in time, and coming from the hand that feeds Star Wars fans, it’s looking like the dream of a game set in the universe for Nintendo’s latest platform might just come true at last.
Awesome idea: lightsaber sound effects coming from the Wii-mote’s speaker.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Holy shit! Thank god they officially announced it. I can’t wait. Who wants to take bets on when the lightsaber/wiimote mods come out.
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May 31st, 2007 at 10:42 pm
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June 1st, 2007 at 7:21 am
Wow, this is definately a game I would be getting! Right now I only have 3 games for my Wii (Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Zelda). I’d gladly shell out $50 for a lightsaber game.
June 1st, 2007 at 7:29 am
They wont be able to do lightsabre duels though, when the blades clash, the remote wont have anything to stop it from continuing the move. With a real sword when you hit something that you cant cut, the blade rests on the surface but with just a remote, you wont be able to do emulate that.
June 1st, 2007 at 7:58 am
Emrah, I hate you.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:01 am
I really hope this is true. We know there will be a Lego Star Wars (combining both previous games) for the Wii, so one might assume there will be some lightsaber action with the wiimote. Hopefully they are referring to a new game!
June 1st, 2007 at 8:03 am
They will probably have some kind of saber lock when swords clash and there will be a power struggle like in wrestling. You would lose control of the saber unless you pull it back and off the other saber.
Just a guess though
June 1st, 2007 at 8:04 am
@Emrah
I’m not so sure it can’t be emulated though. Even in Zelda:TW the sword strikes surfaces and stops momentarily before it’s position resets on the screen. While it is stopped the rumble feature is reacting at a high intensity level. True nothing stops the Wii-mote from continuing in the arc, but it just means players will have to exercise a finer control over their movements. When you feel the rumble feature start to vibrate stop your arc or bring the blade back to neutral, so that you have less distance required to reset for your next attack.
meh .. my 2cents.
Cannis
June 1st, 2007 at 8:13 am
Can we go through walls? No, but we still have walls in games, simply the lightsabre will not bounce back until you go in the opposite direction. Until then it would just be like force being pushed onto the other lightsabre
June 1st, 2007 at 8:54 am
Emrah,
MOD – a nerf sword that will stop “when the blades clash”
June 1st, 2007 at 9:02 am
The remote doesn’t need to stop. Just add some serious force feedback when the sabers clash. If you’ve played the Star Wars Arcade game at Dave and Busters, etc., it’s pretty much the same thing. You have a joystick that you can tilt to the left pretty much forever, however the blade on screen stops when it collides with Vader’s saber. In fact I think with the Wii remote it will go beyond that. Think of it as an invisible line coming out of the Wii Remote that other lightsabers can’t cross. Adding a sufficient amount of force feedback and lightsaber sounds coming from the Wii remote will signal a collision between the two remotes. Imagine blocking blaster fire by moving the Wii remote towards a certain area of the screen that is indicated by arrows on the screen. Kindof an early Force warning of blaster fire. As long as you have your Wii remote in the general area in a timely manner you will block the blaster fire or parry a lightsaber swing. I think this has alot of potential to be a good game. Maybe they should make a Wii lightsaber controller specifically for the game…
June 1st, 2007 at 9:02 am
hey emrah…
im sure they’d find a way to use the force and have the wiimotes stop durin a clash XD
dude, i soooo can’t wait for this game!
June 1st, 2007 at 9:13 am
@Emrah:
Why can’t they just vibrate the wiimote to indicate a clash. If you keep going, your ingame character loses balance or something like that… Very fast play could be implemented with this method.
June 1st, 2007 at 9:39 am
Emrah, your comment is very short sighted.
No offense or anything. Besides modded wiimotes (as Steve suggested), official products will likely be available too… this is Star Wars, after all.
June 1st, 2007 at 9:56 am
this is gonna be awesome!!!!
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June 1st, 2007 at 11:01 am
Couldn’t they have a powered peripheral that throws a little weight to stop the movement? It would basically lengthen the remote and the weight would be at the end for the best effect. I know I’m explaining that poorly, but I think you could make a cheap enough peripheral that could stop the wiimote in its tracks.
June 1st, 2007 at 11:21 am
Man, this would be so cool.
I don’t own a Wii, but I would buy it just for this
Please, please, God let them make such a game!
June 1st, 2007 at 11:22 am
Emrah;
Through the magic of math you can determine a collision (or virtual colision).
The collision detection would be based on speed and the line segments route in the 360*360. The origin of the line segment is the remote and the length depends on the game etc…
June 1st, 2007 at 11:31 am
Lots of good points here! I hope someone’s doing some game research based on these discussions. Personally I like the idea of being required to exercise more control over your movements, “…control, you must learn control,” On top of these idears I’d like to pose a poor swordsmanship concept. Much like the average non-jedi would likely cut themselves to pieces if they tried using a light saber fancy-like, I think the game should force you to not make dangerous moves. Like swinging the saber through yer neck without chopping your head off. Not too worried about this weight-feedback and super-specialized controls for this game, the wii-mote is already super-specialized, but I can see snap-on parts like the tennis rackets and baseball bats currently available.
May the Force… well, ya’ll know the line!!
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June 1st, 2007 at 11:54 am
I want to wave the “nunchuck” to do the Force Persuasion and pull objects and guns.
“You don’t need to see my identification,” (waves hand)
HA HA HA HA!
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June 1st, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I think they’re talking about Star Wars the Force Unleashed cause it’s going to come out on next-gen systems
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:12 am
I’ve always had this idea of a lightsaber game ( I assume I wasn’t the only one ) and finally it’s coming to light!
Really hope they get the gameplay down. It IS lucasarts
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:45 am
@Emrah:
While that is true, the wiimote will most likely not have a 1:1 movement equivilance to the onscreen lightsabre, otherwise you’d have people stabbing themselves in the head. Most likely, if you continue to move the wiimote downwards after clashing, the lightsabre just wont move, and you’ll have to move the wiimote up again. Combined with a bit of rumble when the wiimotes/lightsabres clash, dueling would possibly be quite cool.
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:38 am
WII rocks! if can make this game came true. My addition to WII sports
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June 3rd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
this is so cool!!!!!
June 3rd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
one question when is it coming out
June 4th, 2007 at 2:02 am
hey great, except if previous wii games are any indication we’ll just be swinging the controller in one direction for a downward slash and in another for a lateral cut… not so much full immersion as hay guyz check out my new d-pad.
imho.
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June 4th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
god im so excited ….if lightsaber dueling was implemented well, im buying a wii the next day
…can’t wait for an update on this game
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June 5th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
this that game would be sweet. for xbox 360 and ps3 star wars force unleashed is coming out. a game with AI the interact with the environment and environment that reacts realistically with whatever you throw at it. Literally
June 11th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I’m betting that you will have to push a button to hold blades when they clash, and it will probably be the same button to block. This would be a hindrance to some, but it would illiminate blocking or clashing when your trying to do something else.
June 15th, 2007 at 5:47 am
They can simulate the wielding of a lightsaber taking the info from the accelerometer and direction of the wiimote ‘pointer’. When moving the wiimote slowly you woudn’t slash your saber but when you move it fast, and depending from which point you started accelerating and the direction of the ‘pointer’ you will perform an attack, for instance, up-left to down-right would perform a diagonal attack, left to right an horizontal attack and so on, and the defense stance would we acomplished by pressing a button and a direction, to cover from upside-down attacks or side-to-side attacks. Remember how the lightsaber was used in Jedi Outcast? Isn’t the wiimote used also as a mouse? Then let’s smooth it up to get a mixture of Jedi Outcast in the mechanics (more dynamically) and the field of view in Red Steel, in that you have to move your weapon to one border to rotate or just use the nunchaku. You could also bring up your saber by pressing a button to turn it on or holding a button to attack/defend. Collision detect would be easy since you would know where the handle is and what the ‘vector’ of the saber would be depending at which point of the lightsaber attack movement is. The rest is pure maths. Hope you can have a more clear view of the game now. (by the way, defense should be ‘automatic’ if you block in the right direction, and one-touch kills shoud be enabled as well as slicing and lla that gore details we love, hahaha.)
June 19th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
MULTIPLAYER! There MUST be multiplayer for duelling.
Split screen in first person = AWESOME!!
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August 22nd, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I think what this game would need is a specialised “wand” that looks and feels like a lightsaber. After playing Wii sports at a friends place, the most noticable issue is that certain movements get cut-off or not detected at all. Ie: Wii Boxing. So this “wand” would need a whole bunch of sensors in it, so that every tilt and motion of the “saber” is correctly represented on screen. I also agree with Phil, in that having access to other force powers via the nun-chuck would be awesome. Although I’d go with the Wii-mote for these, as I wouldn’t want the little nun-chuck plugged into my saber, as the cord tends to get all twisted. And ofcourse put a lanyard or trigger loop on that “wand”. Finally, I too will immediatly drop the cash to buy a Wii and the game even for $100 bucks. Total dream come true.
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July 18th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Emrah they will find a way to fix that anyway…and guys maybe they will create a “lightsaber remote” like in guitar hero they have a guitar….that would be amazing!!
May 5th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Once the Wii motion plus comes out, then there’s real possibilility for a killer lightsaber game.