Super Goose Cube

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  The project running in Dolphin

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  Parsed + rendered the goose!!!!

Inspiration

James had a Wii (for £1, from Japan, with parental controls)

What it does

Super Goose Cube is a co-op physics game inspired by Super Monkey Ball. The idea is one player controls the pitch of the platform (forward/back) and the other controls the roll (left/right). It includes innovative features such as:

• A platform that can be pitched and rolled
• A cube that slides up and down the platform
• A shiny goose model
• Wiimote gyroscope controls
• Hacky collision detection and assorted physics
• A .obj parser

How wii built it

• C/C++ using GRRLIB, a graphics library for Wii Homebrew dev which provides a wrapper over the Nintendo GX core functions.
• Wiiuse, used to access the gyro data in the Wiimotes
• Devkitpro

Challenges wii ran into

• Relatively low amount of C++ knowledge (wii improvised a lot)
• The only available documentation for loading in .obj files (3D models as a list of polygons) WAS IN FRENCH
• Following on from that, the state of Wii Homebrew development in 2024 is dire:
  • Most links that would lead anywhere helpful are dead
  • There is almost no documentation for any libraries
• Doing our own game physics from scratch without an engine such as Bullet is painful (our collision detection is not maintainable)

Accomplishments that wii're proud of

• Not crying
• Having a somewhat working physics "simulation" (simulation is a strong word)
• Goose (it took 7 hours to load in correctly and would segfault the entire program if it wasn't rotating for a while)
• The controls actually work well

What wii learned

• Wii Homebrew is quite difficult
• How to pitch and roll 3D objects using data from a Wiimote
• If wii want to make a more playable game wii should probably use an existing game/physics engine next time

What's next for Super Goose Cube

• More Goose :)

Built With

• c
• c++
• grrlib
• homebrew
• wii