RobotDawn launches. Invasion Released.

sinistergfx

We've launched version 1 of our website. Invasion, our first homebrew Nintendo DS game, is available for download.

http://www.robotdawn.com

animatr

sweet man! that's cool stuff. Wish I had the hardware to play it. I've been thinking about looking into getting some of that stuff anyway to futz around with

Congrats though, this is really cool!

JordanW

You dont -have- to have hardware to play the game. We put a link to an emmulator on the game's page. It'd be nice to see what people think of the game

Emil Mujanovic

That's cool man! It's projects like these that make me want to get into DS Homebrew projects.
I havn't played Invasion yet (I'll download it tonight when I get home from work), but I did see the short video. From that I feel that the top screen is a little useless. Sure it tells you your score and lives, but you'd only really need a portion of the screen for that.
Maybe making the scrolling areas of the levels a little wider and putting a mini map on the top screen?
As for using the D-Pad for firing the shockwave, it would make it a little awkward for left hand people. Maybe using the shoulder buttons?
Or I guess you could raise the difficulty a little and stick with the D-Pad to fire directionally. So you have to fire the shockwave towards the direction of the missle (for left handers, you could have the same use but with the buttons on the right). The shoulder buttons could be a special shockwave ability which you use if surrounded by multiple missles.
I could go on for ages, but yeah. Great stuff. If you guys ever need any additional artists I'd definately be keen to help out.

-caseyjones

JordanW

Any button or any direction fires off the attack so it should work for left or right handed people.

Emil Mujanovic

My bad, I misread it on the site.

-caseyjones

hawken

what an insanely boring game. well done for getting it together though, hope the next one has more gameplay!

cholden

hah! what an asshole.

Like the site, gang, and the game looks neato to start. I've seen what you've been mucking around with Will, and I wish you guys luck. DS can be so much fun!

Xenobond

Kinda neat game to play when I'm taking a dump in the bathroom. How does I make me a game fer my DS? pls

sinistergfx

1) Learn to program with C or C++
2) http://forum.gbadev.org/viewforum.php?f=18
or http://palib.com/
3) Pimp game you made.

Eclipse

I havn't got a chance to play it as I'm waiting to get the DS-X for homebrewin :P. But from the video it looks nice and solid, if you are looking to update it any I would suggest maybe a side-scrolling world where there might be some obsticles you have to dodge as well as the missles to destory...might mix it up a little bit .