A lot of exciting news came out of today’s Nintendo Direct. A new Zelda was announced. A Wind Waker re-release was, too. And a new Mario 3D game was teased. But one announcement in particular was more relevant to our interests than the others: apparently, an actual Mii-verse app is headed to smart phones this spring. Shacknews writes that it’ll launch as a basic browser of the ‘verse with “more functionality" slated to hit later.
Mii-verse browsing with a phone or a tablet was announced at last year’s E3, but nothing Nintendo said at that event had us thinking it intended to make a dedicated app. Today’s news kinda has us excited, as a dedicated app can do so much more than a web page. Here’s a promo shot of the functionality from E3:
It’ll be interesting to see how this shakes out, what Nintendo decides to throw into the app, and how well it supports it down the line. We’ve got a lot of waiting to do before we know, though.
[via Shacknews]
Multiplayer you say?
Ok, I'm in!
I've been debating on whether or not to buy the game, fearing the lack of support since I haven't seen an iPhone 5 update, but thanks to this article, I'm going for it and patiently wait for the 2.0 update =)
Thanks!!
This 2.0 version will be a separate, new app; not an update to the existing one.
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OMG! Thanks for that!
I was about to re-read the article to see if it was an update of a new game...
As long as they don't introduce IAP, I'm still in. I hate it when "crystals" are involved in a game. I am not falling for that scheme!!
The current game has IAP that's as good as IAP implementation gets. It basically just gives you cute hats that randomly spawn existing items in the game. Fun little freebies to support the devs!
There is already IAP...
It's not really the same, the IAP in junk jack honestly is unneeded to play the game fully; there are no artificial constraints in the game that IAP "fixes"
I love this game. I've never been disappointed with any of the updates in the original. I'll be a loyal customer on the first day just to see what's going to pop up in the next iteration.
Yup. The reason why they aren't doing a widescreen-support update is to keep backwards compatibility with the 3GS/3rd generation iPod Touches. They are unfortunately stuck on iOS 5.1.x.
The only crafting game I really like. An absolutely amazing wiki for it too.
One of the new features I'm really anticipating that wasn't mentioned is the new worlds.
Hope the control scheme is better this time around. Blockheads nailed the controls, with queue-able actions. It is unfortunately limited by the IAP.
It only has qeue-ble actions because of IAP, and because of it the pace is extremely slow.
Multiplayer you say? Excellent! My daughter and I have both played Junk Jack since its release but have recently drifted to The Blockheads for its multiplayer. I can now see with the release of JJ 2.0 we will be back killing slimes together.
I hope junk jack 2 supports iPod 4g. Or they add multiplayer and the new crafting setup to junk jack 1