Chris Kohler
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Clive Thompson: <cite>Skate</cite> Controls Beat Wiimote Waggling

On the front page this morning, Clive Thompson talks about EA’s new skateboarding game Skate, and how the control scheme "perfectly splits the difference between the Wii and a regular controller": But then I stumbled into a big half-pipe, and whoa: It all came together. As I flew up the edge of the pipe and […]

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On the front page this morning, Clive Thompson talks about EA's new skateboarding game Skate, and how the control scheme "perfectly splits the difference between the Wii and a regular controller":

But then I stumbled into a big half-pipe, and whoa: It all came together. As I flew up the edge of the pipe and launched into the air, I found myself "leaning" my fingers in precisely the direction I wanted my avatar's body to move. When I wanted to spin in midair, I'd lean the left thumbstick the way I felt I ought to be leaning, and bingo: It'd work. Basically, I began intuiting how to perform tricks.

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