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DS homebrew announcements > My first DS game: Ka-BoOm !

#125644 - stravingo - Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:31 pm

Hi everybody! I'm proud to present you Ka-BoOm, my first game on DS. You can download version 0.1 on my devblog. This is not a revolutionary game as this is "only" a minesweeper. However, I'm trying to make it as fun as possible, with some improvement on gameplay. You can play on terrains that are as large as 1 screen (normal), 1x2 screens (double) or 2x2 screens (huge).
The game is not totally finished, I estimate it is 85% ready. I have to improve the graphics, to code highscores management, to finish the menu, and to add rumble during explosions.
Beware, the game must be played on a real DS and not on an emulator, because of speed issues, as well as graphical bugs due to alpha blending of 3D sprites. And there is another reason: you need the mic!
Indeed, the most original feature of Ka-BoOm is the following: in all others minesweepers, it can happen that you clic on a cell containing a bomb at the beginning of the game, without having time to sweep an area. So you loose, without having any clue that there was a bomb in this cell. Sooo frustrating ;)
In Ka-BoOm, when this case occurs, the bomb doesn't explose immediately. The bomb appears on the upper screen and you have 2 seconds to blow in the mic to extinguish the fuse ! Have fun ! :)

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My games (Ka-BoOm, Setsuzoku no Puzzle) and apps (DS Weather Report, Treasures of Gaia) on DS are available on my blog!

#125691 - link12827 - Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:32 am

tried it out, and it works on M3DSS, but sometimes while holding r and selecting a tile it will click as if normally, and if its a bomb you lose, so you might want to fix that in the next version

#126104 - stravingo - Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:45 am

Thanks for the report. I also have a M3DSS but I didn't encounter this problem. I will look at it attentively.
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My games (Ka-BoOm, Setsuzoku no Puzzle) and apps (DS Weather Report, Treasures of Gaia) on DS are available on my blog!