Soundbite: Vance Cook on inventing new control mechanics for virtual golf

The Life & Times of Video Games

Former Links, PGA Championship Golf, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour lead Vance Cook explains how and why his team(s) created new ways to swing a virtual golf club — beginning with the C-shaped gauge in Links and leading into "TruSwing" on Front Page Sports Golf and PGA Championship, and then ending with the motion-controller (Wiimote) swing in Tiger Woods Wii.

Also listen for insights into the difference between sports games that aim for simulation versus those that aim for the "emotional experience".

This soundbite uses leftover material from Episode 27 - Links, though that story's not a pre-requisite for listening.

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