The Wii U eShop continues to attract fresh developers, some with ambitious ideas, and TACS Games appears to be in this category with Quadcopter Pilot Challenge.
Based on the small toy craft of that name, this title appears to aim for a blend of Pilotwings-style challenges and ambitious use of the GamePad. Inspired by quadcopters that come equipped with mounted cameras and screens in the controllers, this adopts a third-person camera on the TV and that on-board camera view on the GamePad. The trailer below focuses on the TV view, but it gives you an idea of how this is shaping up.
There'll apparently be over "200 challenges in 7 modes", along with three difficulty levels - the easier setting has protective prop guards on the copter, the middle setting makes these guards destructible, while the toughest setting is designed for the craft to drift and handle realistically, while also forcing you to use the GamePad view and a camera angle 'from the ground' for extra realism.
This project is nearly complete and due to be submitted to Nintendo of America "in the next couple of weeks", with Europe to follow.
It's certainly an ambitious project - will you be keeping an eye on its flight path?
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Looks neat. I'd love a try at a demo
I sometimes fly a quadcopter myself and would love to give this a try - I could get used to performing tricky manoeuvres without the risk of damage to my real one!
The graphics look a little "64" to me, but the gameplay could be a lot of fun. I'd like to see it be something that's more of a simulator that could help someone learn how to fly a real quadcopter if they can't afford to buy the true gear. It's something that could be a useful skill to have.
I'm intrigued by this could be fun and challenging.itd be nice to see a good game on the eshop that isn't a 2d platformer/metroidvania.
Looking nice. Hopefully it'll have different environments than the desert setting.
This looks pretty awesome actually! Pilotwings 64 is for sure a comparison but with their own twist to it. This is welcome as long as it's stable, graphics are looking pretty good on this imo.
I maintain that vehicle sims are boring if you're not racing or shooting any(one/thing).
The game looks pretty awesome. The challenges look straight forward and interesting. And based on that quick game play video, it looks very smooth and well designed. I wonder if they'll make of app version of this, man, that would be cool.
I would like to practise quadcopter art like this:
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/age-drone-vandalism-begins-epic-nyc-tag/
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