Looks like Google is trying to fill up the casual gaming niche with its products, recently launching its first official Android TV platform in the Nexus Player – which also doubles as a casual gaming console – and now introducing family-oriented games within Chromecast. Looks like the holidays are going to be a lot of fun for you Chromecast users.
Google is adding these games to Chromecast – the classic Wheel of Fortune game, Hasbro’s Monopoly Dash, Scrabble Blitz, Connect Four Quads and Simon Swipe. Users get to use their phones or tablets as controllers. Pretty nifty.
If you feel like moving around, Chromecast’s got your back with Just Dance Now, a variant of the famous console dance franchise, where your smartphone’s sensors can tell whether you’re moving your hands around or pumping your fists to the beat. There’s also a trivia game called Big Web Quiz, which utilizes the Google Knowledge Graph to create hundreds of trivia questions.
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If you’re not getting the Nexus Player and its more console-like controller, then Chromecast’s casual gaming suite might just be the thing for you – no extra expense for controllers and all that. What do you think?
SOURCE: Google Chrome blog
Interesting.
Is it possible to connect multiple phones (as controllers) at the same time?
That might open some interesting “second screen” controller options.
I’m imagining a “vs mode” Tower Defense game where you place your towers and choose your attackers each round and then watch it play out on the Chromecast?
It would also work for some traditional board games like Battleship where you don’t want the other player to see your ship positioning or card games where the public space is on the TV and the cards are in your hand.