With the launch of the Wii-U just weeks away, Austrian indies Broken Rules have just opened up with the first video showing how they plan to use the console’s unique second-screen setup for a “hide and seek” mode in Chasing Aurora, their beautifully paper-cut and flat shaded “2D aerial action game about the dream of flight” that will mark one of the first indie launches for the console’s downloadable service.

As with a number of Nintendo’s own Nintendo Land minigames, the mode will see one player using the Wii-U controller with a global view of the game attempting to stay out of the line of sight of its four opponents, each of whom get a more restricted zoomed-in sense of the world, and all of whom are attempting to snatch the ‘golden bird’s ‘aurora gem’.

Broken Rules have also shown more of their other multiplayer modes via their YouTube channel, and have a larger showcase of screenshots and information at their Chasing Aurora home page and accompanying presskit page.

The fact that Broken Rules’ cult indie PC hit And Yet It Moves would be coming to the Wii was very stealthily announced at this year’s E3, tipped off only by an entry in an accompanying Nintendo release list.

But the studio is now giving themselves more of a public face with the launch of their new site, twitter account, and the release of the video above: the first that shows how the Wii-mote will be integrated into its world-revolving play, and, as a bonus, probably the best use of human-stop-motion I think we’ve ever seen in a games trailer.

Also gone almost entirely noticed over the course of the E3 week: the fact that twisted indie platformer And Yet It Moves, from Vienna studio Broken Rules has been stealthily announced for a WiiWare release in Fall 2009, after only just made its way to Steam and other digital download services in early April. Above: a teaser trailer for its PC release.