World of Sand (beta)

***wraggster*** · December 31st, 2006, 15:37

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

**directive0** · December 31st, 2006, 18:37

:thumbup:

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.

**lolmasta** · January 1st, 2007, 13:05

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

**souLLy** · January 1st, 2007, 18:40

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

**kcajblue** · January 1st, 2007, 19:05

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

**JazW** · January 22nd, 2007, 21:44

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

**rawfodog** · February 1st, 2007, 02:31

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

**Sigma83** · February 1st, 2007, 06:12

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

**Category** · February 3rd, 2007, 17:07

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!