Garden2x is a port of “Garden of Coloured Lights” ( http://www.allegro.cc/depot/GardenofColouredLights ). It’s a musical shoot-em-up influenced by rRootage, Radiant Silvergun and Rez.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,30,2499

ant512 was about the enter the current PDRoms Coding Competition, but gave up and released what he had to the public.

Get the download and further details at the PDRoms webboard.

http://www.pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=405&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=90#p1833

Blockoid is an Arkanoid sytle game coded by KidPaddle.

Changes: (translation from german to english by Kojote)

– Fixed a bug when playing with multiple balls
– Levelformat has been changed, there are now 9 different types of stones to brick, for details check readme.txt
– Counter/seconds for powerups added
– New powerup “W”

http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?t=4881&start=15&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

News from the Giana’s Return team, but not mainly good ones:

Quote:

The organizer and the coder were catching a flu the past week. Both are almost recovered, but now the coder has gone on vacation for around one month. In the meantime he fixed minor problems, basically details.

Something else which just came to our attention is this: http://www.amazon.de/Giana-Sisters-ultimative-JumpnRun-Spiel-JumpnRun-Editor/dp/3828761445/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1204372120&sr=8-1

Seems someone gained the permission for an official Giana’s Sister PC sequel, which brings up the question if the word of the trademark owner is still vaild and we can still release Giana’s Return. In worst case, we just rename the 2 girls and change the titlescreen music remix.

Anyone got more info on that sequel/remake?

http://www.gianas-return.de/?p=129

This is a complete development environmet for GP2X development as a complete preconfigured package as many people are still having trouble setting up the toolchain, IDE, etc from the Wiki.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,14,2295

The idea of the game is that you need to factor a very large number which is a multiple of the first 8 primes: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19. So, for instance:

12355467391260000000 = 2^8 * 3^7 * 5^7 * 7^10

By pressing the left, right, up, down, A, B, X, and Y buttons, you can attempt to divide the large number by a prime. You can increase the power of the prime to attempt more points. Make a mistake and lose even more.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=40775&view=findpost&p=588710

Achim has updated his smily influenced game Muepp Muepp.

http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?t=5014&start=30

The idea of the game is that you need to factor a very large number which is a multiple of the first 8 primes: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19. So, for instance: 12355467391260000000 = 2^8 * 3^7 * 5^7 * 7^10 By pressing the left, right, up, down, A, B, X, and Y buttons, you can attempt to divide the large number by a prime. By using the L and R buttons, you can increase the power of the divisor. 2 becomes 2^2 = 4, 7 becomes 7^2 = 49, and 19 becomes 19^2 = 361. You can increase your power up to a factor of 6, where 19^6 = 47045881! Be careful though. If you make a mistake you’ll be penalized 3 times the amount of points you would have gained if you were correct. Increasing the power is risky business! The icon graph is a hypercube, a four dimensional object that could be used to represent an easy puzzle (2^w*3^x*5^y*7^z).

The music is from Isaac Albeniz’s Suite Espanola, Op. 47 – Leyenda. The music is copyright free and in the public domain and is available for download at http://www.musopen.com/view.php?type=piece&id=224 I rather enjoyed the fast pace, and the Spanish guitar is perfect for reading through the Fenix API (which is written in Spanish, of course). The entire song is there, split up between the menu, gameplay, and high score screen.

HINTS
The easy mode eliminates the higher primes, leaving a number built only from 2s, 3s, 5s, and 7s. If you get a positive score, you’re doing good! Fives and Twos are easy. Just count the zeros at the end of the number, increase the power to that number and hit 2 (up) and 5 (right). These points are so easy to get that 2’s and 5’s aren’t available at the hard Level! Testing a divisor to see if it is safe is easy at the first power; you’ll only lose 3 times the prime in points. But if you test a prime like this, you lose valuable points you could have gained at a higher power. Try turning up your power first and risking a big score early when it’s more likely to be possible. You can also eliminate a prime by a large number of low power moves, and then focusing on one prime. This strategy works, but you won’t get the highest score It is possible to get a score so low (below 200 million) that the machine won’t be very impressed with your performance.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,37,2494

Graphics library for gp2x. Includes 2D, 3D, Text, Time, Joystick, and Sound (ogg) functions. Includes working example code, and .gpe files. Now Included a Win32 port to test your programs before compiling for GP2X. Win32 tester version includes 2D, 3D, Text, and Joystick functions. Now supports textures upto 128×128 bitmaps.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,19,2349

Termula2x is a UNIX terminal emulator for GP2X, including vi text editor. It supports background images.

Changes:

* added hide/show virtual keyboard option – to show virtual keyboard set vkeyboard=true or set vkeyboard=false to hide it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/termula2x/