World of Sand (beta)

New release from nornagon

Hi all,

World of Sand (beta 1)

I hacked this up over the last couple of days and the folks on #dsdev seemed to enjoy it, so I thought I'd link it here for your pleasure.

Note that the idea for the game isn't original; the code is mostly from a clone I made of the game by Dofi (written in Java, eugh).

The performance isn't great yet, but it's acceptable. The code will be released when I get around to dropping it on a version control system, under the GPL. There are a bunch more features I plan to add, including:



a title screen

more materials/combinations (steam, ash, snow, ideas welcome)

portrait view

a hideable toolbox instead of the arrow-key-selected icons

a way to stop/start the flow of individual sources

different brush sizes

timer and particle count on the top screen

save/load to png

Download Here --> http://2-2-dihexanol.net/worldofsand.nds

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Very very cool, I've waited for someone to make a decent homebrew answer to sand on the DS for a little while now. With some spit and polish this would be an EXCELLENT little piece of software.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS
In the sand game forums someone made a sucky port.
I hope this is awesome!

heh, I posted months ago that I'd love to see this ported to the ds. Glad to see someone gave it a try :D

this is better than the PSP one.
setting stuff on fire is fun. :D

How about lava - hot and firey then cools to a solid, quenched by water, etc?

definitely add some EXPLOSIONS like in pyro sand, You know C4 dynamite, perhaps even fuse... nothing is fun without explosions!!! =P

This is nifty. Is there a point, or are u to just mess around and create pretty pictures? :)

One feature I would definatly like to see - a button to stop and start the sand flowing! Or am I just being stupid and missed one?

Either way, this is a lovely little toy, and could be brilliant with a little more work!

How about the added affect that when you burn sand it creates glass?

Better idea, Hows about you make it work with reading txt files like the normle game. >_>

Why the heck would a sand game read text files?

They all do. I got 20 mods downloaded for the PC version of falling sand game. From normle, to chemicals, batteries, hot plates, pumps, etc. Even made a few of my own mods.

They make a sand game that u can download to your PC, and download new elements (text files)

the links dead and this sounds really good.