myke38 coder of the Starcraft fangame “StarLite” had to stop the development, due to copyright infrigment.

It’s amazing how a little homebrew game can gain that much attention that even Blizzard Entertainment go after someone.

A tip for all homebrew coders, try to avoid the use of ripped graphics and music, avoid the use of copyrighted names and characteres and you’ll be on the save side.

Update 15:35:
There is a DIGG article about this here: http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/01/22/starlite-blinks-out/

http://playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=17883

Clonemines is a mix of Tetris and Lumines.

The judges of the Drunken Coders Coding Competition are done, the results are out!

#1 Snowflakes
#2 Santa’s Challenge
#3 Evil Santa Attacks

Full results on the Drunken Coders homepage!

http://www.drunkencoders.com/compo/

Clonemines is a mix of Tetris and Lumines for the Nintendo DS coded by myersn024.

Release notes:

This version has a lot of changes. The first thing that you’ll notice is the reduction of the playable area. It was reduced from the full top screen down to 16 X 10. This is the same size as the playable area of Lumines for the PSP. The second major change is that block deletion takes place every 10 seconds instead of 15. Furthermore, block deletion also happens independent of a block being dropped. There’s still no sweeper line or destroyer block. The sweeper line should be in the next release, but I’m still not sure about the destroyer block.

Anyway, there’s still some bugs that will need to be worked out, and chances are better that you’ll run into them in this particular version (bear in mind that they’re still very very few and far between). That being said, all the bugs should be worked out with the next version, which will probably be the final release.

As always, comments, questions, and bug reports are welcome.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the illustration picture.

http://forums.qj.net/f-nds-homebrew-software-and-releases-65/t-clonemines-v02-release-133188.html

HentaiSucker DS is a hentai game for Nintendo DS. It might not be suiteable for our younger visitors.

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&type=&topic_id=4121&forum=9

cid2mizard, known for his Super Mario space shooter “Super Mario Galaxies” has picked up a new fan-topic. Now he goes after “Captaine Flam” who is known as “Captain Future” in the english and germany TV community.

http://cid2mizard.dev-fr.org/p3834/2008-01-21-capitaine-flam-ds-les-premieres-images-la-v0-0.html

Sephiroth_FF7 updated his latest game project “TrailBlazer 3D”.

http://sephirothff7.dev-fr.org/p3830/2008-01-20-trailblazer3d-0-2-released.html

3 En Raya has been updated, particular GFX wise. This game is similar to Tic Tac Toe.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org again for the news.

http://senzocr.blogspot.com/

Scrabble Assistant DS is designed to help players of the Scrabble board-game.

Changes:

– French version with ODS5.
– English version with TWL.
– English version with SOWPODS.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14879

Introduction:


This is a puzzle game. There are a grid of 3 columns and 3 rows and 9 images with 3 shapes and 3 colors. On the right are the next 3 images (from top to bottom). You place the top one into a blank cell by touching the latter. Then a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line with certain patterns will disappear and you score. The goal is to score as high as possible.

Line rules:
Horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines with the following patterns will disappear and you score.
1. Same shape and same color.
2. Same shape and distinct colors
or same color and distinct shapes.
3. Distinct shapes and distinct colors.

Score rules.
1 line: 1 point
2 lines: 4 points
3 lines: 27 points
4 lines: 256 points

Legend:
1. Question mark: help.
2. Grid: new game.
3. Right images: the next 3 images, top to bottom.
4. High: high score.
5. Score: current score.
6. Number: number of images placed.

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4090&forum=9