Videogame legend David Braben talks WiiWare and LostWinds
David Braben has been speaking with Gamasutra about the WiiWare launch title LostWinds, currently in production at his studio Frontier Developments. Not surprisingly, he’s very positive about both.
If you haven’t been following its progress, LostWinds puts you in control of a boy called Toku and a wind spirit called Enril, with the thumbstick controlling the former and the Wii-mote the latter. Toku, a fragile slip of a boy, needs Enril to help him glide and pick-up heavy objects, a mechanic that studio director describes as “single-player cooperative”.
Apparently a “lot of love” has gone into it. It’s certainly looking nice.
On WiiWare, Braben wears his business hat, discussing the problems of market price sensitivity in digital distribution, before signing off on a business-like high note. Although he’s prepared to entertain the idea of releasing LostWinds as a disc-based product, he thinks WiiWare “will do really well.”
[via Gamasutra]
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