DS as motion control for Balance PC game
Seems like the Nintendo DS is getting around these days. Balance, a downloadable PC puzzle game, offers an option to use the DS for its tilt controls. Balance is mainly a 3D pinball-like game where you tilt the board in order to guide balls to marked targets. While the default control calls for the use of a mouse, KAMPO Interactive also offers the option to use either a Nintendo DS to control the game, or an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Active Protection SystemÂ’s motion detection system.
Contrary to what you may think, the DS controls do not use the stylus; Balance uses the DS Motion Card, which is quite appropriate considering its tilt-gameplay. The DS also uses its Wi-Fi connection to send motion, rotation, and orientation data of the handheld to the PC’s external controller plugin, making for a seamless control of the game.
Now, this opens up a whole slew of possibilities for the DS being used with the PC. Can the Nintendo DS be used as a graphics tablet? With this development, it looks like the answer’s going to be a definitive yes.
Check out the DS Motion Card and the Lenovo Thinkpad in action after the jump.
Seems like the Nintendo DS is getting around these days. Balance, a downloadable PC puzzle game, offers an option to use the DS for its tilt controls. Balance is mainly a 3D pinball-like game where you tilt the board in order to guide balls to marked targets. While the default control calls for the use of a mouse, KAMPO Interactive also offers the option to use either a Nintendo DS to control the game, or an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Active Protection SystemÂ’s motion detection system.
Contrary to what you may think, the DS controls do not use the stylus; Balance uses the DS Motion Card, which is quite appropriate considering its tilt-gameplay. The DS also uses its Wi-Fi connection to send motion, rotation, and orientation data of the handheld to the PC’s external controller plugin, making for a seamless control of the game.
Now, this opens up a whole slew of possibilities for the DS being used with the PC. Can the Nintendo DS be used as a graphics tablet? With this development, it looks like the answer’s going to be a definitive yes.
Check out how the DS Motion Card and Balance in action:
Also, take a look on how Kampo Interactive managed to turn IBM/Lenovo’s security program into a game application:
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