Posted by Derek Yu
Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:29:00 GMT
Qwak is a pretty cool little homebrew platformer for the GBA, developed by Jamie Woodhouse. The first thing I noticed when I played the demo (requires a GBA emulator) is that the game is pretty fast-paced. The second thing I noticed is that you’re a duck who wears armor and throws its own eggs to kill furries. The third thing I noticed is that I was having a pretty good time.
Bottom line: 15 GBP for a fun platformer for your GBA (comes in an actual cartridge).
EDIT: Yes, this is a remake of the Amiga game from 1993.
Posted in Mobile / Handheld, Platformers, Remakes, Homebrew | 7 comments
Posted by Albert Lai
Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:48:00 GMT
This article
details how a few students have created "Metalheads", a neat indie
game that was built for the DS, despite the fact that there is no DS hardware
available – they mimick it using a tablet instead. There’s no demo available
(dang! It actually uses the touchscreen better than a slew of most games, from
what I read), but hey, maybe the people at Nintendo will take note!
(Source: Slashdot)
Posted in Homebrew, Community | 1 comment
Posted by Derek Yu
Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:40:00 GMT
Modojo has a nice article out called “The State of DS Homebrew” which covers all the basic aspects of the DS homebrew scene, like vocabulary, emulators, games, and apps. It definitely is not detailed enough to get you up and running homebrew games on your DS, but it serves as kind of a nice entrypoint for further research.
The image on the left is from an independent DS game called “No Place To Hide!”
(Source: Joystiq)
In other news, I’ve got a huge amount of space left to write here, because I chose a ridiculously tall image to attach to this post. But I can’t think of anything to say… except “NHP 4 lyfe.”
Posted in Mobile / Handheld, Homebrew | 1 comment
Posted by dessgeega
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:50:00 GMT
no place to hide is a rather shiny homebrew title for the nintendo ds. it gives off a sort of warioware vibe: your goal in each of its ten minigames is to avoid being touched by things for as long as you can using the stylus. for example, help a cat dodge the rain, keep a sketch ghost away from toothy pac-men, don’t let jesus get hit by dance dance revolution arrows. some of the games are kind of samey, but a couple are pretty good.
it’s wifi-compatible too, which doesn’t mean much for you if you don’t have a passme. i was able to get the game running on DeSmuME, allowing me to sate my need for jesus versus ddr action for one more day.
Posted in Mobile / Handheld, Homebrew | 4 comments
