Miiverse producer Kiyoshi Mizuki has revealed that Nintendo is planning on making a number of improvements to their social network in the coming months. The Miiverse API will be updated in the future with a new version of the Wii U Software Development Kit which will allow for new interactions. Here is a brief summary of what users can expect.
- Players will be able to send and receive comments in-game.
- Players will be able to see ‘Yeahs’ in-game.
- They can follow users, and see who users are following in-game.
- Users will be able to launch games from Miiverse Posts
- Launch buttons on Miiverse posts can contain program arguments, so it will be possible to boot directly to a certain level or menu in a game
- Can work with online datastore for additional functionality
- Mizuki posited the potential application of level editing and sharing via Miiverse;
- envisions a game where users bring the game to life (sounds very LBP)
- User Sub-Communities (like Mario Kart 7′s) are coming to Miiverse
- Can be used to organise and hold tournaments
- First game to use them is Wii Fit U
- Nintendo is canvassing developers for anything else they’d like to see in the API
Source: Nintendo World Report via NeoGAF
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