Topic: Fun! Fun! Minigolf for Wiiware

[Flames_of_chaos]

It's made by Shin'en who is the developer of Nanostray 1 and 2.
Screenshots

Features:
    * 1-4 Players.
    * Fun! Fun! features Golf courses in America, Europe and Asia.
    * There are 27 different holes to play.
    * Shin'en expects to release the game very soon on Wii Ware.
    * Release date announcement in the next weeks.
    * It will be released in Europe and the US
    * The game runs fully at 60fps (NTSC) or 50fps (PAL).
    * The game does support 16:9 and 4:3 TV screens.
    * Some graphical specs. Fun! Fun! features:
      -HDR Lightning
      -Image Based Lightning
      -Soft Shadows
      -Normal Mapping
      -Environment Mapping
      -Bump Mapping
      -Blooming

[Kairon]

Wow, that's a lot of effort for a minigolf game...

[Flames_of_chaos]

Makes you wish developers would put that much amount of effort in a retail Wii game.

[Kairon]

I'd also like to mention that shinen is the developer of Strawberry Shortcake: The Four Seasons Cake. Mmmm... I remember that review fondly.

[Bill Aurion]

WHY A GOLF GAME!?

WHY NOT ANOTHER SHMUP!?

[DAaaMan64]

I'd buy it if it doesn't suck. Ya knows?

[Kairon]

WHY A GOLF GAME!?

WHY NOT ANOTHER SHMUP!?

No, why no new 2D platformer from the strawberry shortcake franchise?!?!

[Mario]

WOW. Looks fun indeed. Characters and art style turn me off a bit though, but props for the effort. I've been wanting another good minigolf game since Bunghole in One.

[KDR_11k]

WHY A GOLF GAME!?

WHY NOT ANOTHER SHMUP!?

Cause there are enough shmups and minigolf is still a mostly unexplored genre on the Wii?

[Nick DiMola]

Wow looks great. Shin'en has proven that they are a talented dev and as such I look forward to this title.

[EasyCure]

no more lame mini-golf games from wiicade for me!

well, maybe. i bought midnight pool and havent touched it much, i dont want mini golf to end up the same.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Golf isn't so interesting without Daisy. *sigh*

We Love Golf flop. *sigh*

[Flames_of_chaos]

Hey We Love Golf is awesome.

[Kairon]

I know this is horrible for me to say it, but I was happy to hear that Wii Love Golf bombed a little. Maybe now they can stop flooding the market with Golf Games, and Camelot can make... I don't know... GOLDEN SUN?!?!?!

[Flames_of_chaos]

I know this is horrible for me to say it, but I was happy to hear that Wii Love Golf bombed a little. Maybe now they can stop flooding the market with Golf Games, and Camelot can make... I don't know... GOLDEN SUN?!?!?!

Umm Kai they release golf games like once every 3 - 4 years that's hardly flooding the market when a company like EA releases annual updates.

[Infernal Monkey]

Manfred Linzner's (Iridion, Nanostray, Toki Tori etc.) working on the soundtrack, so even if the gameplay is somehow botched, it'll still be worth it for the music!

[Flames_of_chaos]

How hard is it to mess up a minigolf game?!?!?! *looks at Kings of Clubs* never mind.....

[Infernal Monkey]

There's an awesome interview up at WiiWare World.

ML: Our goal was to make the game to look better than most Wii titles. We just had to plan carefully. So before starting with any content we sat down and calculated precisely how much space each part of the game would need. We broke it down into audio, graphics and code. As we knew very good how much resources we need to make something look and sound good this wasn't too hard in the end.

There are 27 holes to play. You can play alone and earn different medals or play with up to four people.

Our engine also allows full control of daytime. So you will play the courses in the morning, noon, afternoon or night. This adds a lot of realism and allows different graphical effects for different daytimes. Our game testers we really stunned when they first played the game.

We experimented with all kind of obstacles. In the end those obstacles you know from the real world were simply the best to play. If the obstacles are too complex they may look fun but in the end you feel like just making a lucky shot. Each of our obstacles needs a different approach. In general each hole can be played in one stroke. However, doing this does really mean to master the game.

We are very proud about the audio part of the game. The songs and FX are really great. We also hired a male and a female professional voice actor for commenting the game. We feel that current games often have too boring and casual audio. We wanted to have music you will remember.

WW: When is this likely to be available in Europe and USA? Roughly how much will it retail for?

ML: We think it will be soon this autumn / fall. The game is finished and just needs to go through Nintendo’s Lot Check. The price tag should be below 1000 Wii points.