EXPERIMENTAL CONTROLLERS COULD CHANGE GAMING FOR GOOD

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EXPERIMENTAL CONTROLLERS COULD CHANGE GAMING FOR GOOD


WHEN I SIT down to play Lumines Remastered—the Nintendo Switch port of the puzzle game that was, at one point, the PlayStation Portable's killer app—I'm invited to put on a belt of Joy-Cons. This "peripheral," designed by the Lumines team for the Nintendo Indies showcase at the Game Developers Conference, is designed to show off one of the remaster's oddest new feature
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  • Taking advantage of the Joy-Con's dynamic vibration, Lumines Remastered allows additional sets of the controllers to be synced to the Switch to act solely as vibration nodes, pulsing and jumping along with the beat of the music and Tetris-meets-3D-Chess gameplay. The makeshift belt is a means to illustrate this mechanic, and as I wear it, desperately trying not to make a joke about the Rez vibrator, I'm struck by the way it jarrs my hips into the play. Each block put into place sends a shock of energy through my body. Normally, playing a game like this, only your hands and your mind are involved in the rhythm. Now, my whole body felt a part of the action.
Control interfaces that involve more than just the player's hands that strive for a more embodied play experience—aren't new by any means. But, as I wandered the halls of GDC this year, there was a sense they were gaining popularity in a way they hadn't before. Moreover, it seemed as though they were capable of changing how players, well, play.
Nintendo, certainly, feels like one of the major drivers here. The company has shown a dedication to making the Switch, in its first year, a hub for creative ideas about interaction. The Nintendo Labo, an experiment in papercraft and the overlap between toy design and game design, makes use of the unique features of the Joy-Cons to turn the stuff of digital play into the stuff of more physical, traditional play. With Labo, Joy-Con functions empower papercraft pianos and robots, little toy machines that become wrapped up in the videogame experience offered on the Switch console. Labo is decidedly aimed at younger players, but the ideas Nintendo is trying to mainstream have implications far beyond. The relationship between game worlds and the real world is already porous, so why not break the barrier down even further?

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