Develop Wii U games with monkey

John McCubbin

(Posted 2013) [#1]

According to this article, Nintendo are planning to allow indie developers to create games for their wiiware shop using HTML5 which would be great news for monkey.

We should get more info soon at GDC in March

http://www.develop-online.net/news/43135/Wii-U-expanding-third-party-dev-range-with-HTML5

Leon Brown

(Posted 2013) [#2]

How fast does HTML5 run in the Wii U browser? I've heard it supports canvas, but it's capped to 10 frames per second - not perfect, but workable with some game types. Check these examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Ur11mZVAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XZuJikmd90