Oh, well. To the point.

This is the newest release of Bitsweeper!

Basically, not much has changed. Sorry about that. :)

- First of all, the source code has been moved to Google Code. This was made in order to make easier for people to check and/or download it. The project is now hosted at: http://code.google.com/p/bitsweeper/ ; you can browse the source code at: http://code.google.com/p/bitsweeper/source/browse/ .

- During its annual checkup ( :D ), I’ve found a few pieces of code that weren’t doing really anything useful in there, so they were removed.

- A bug was found, since I first uploaded the source code to Google, where I was calling irqInit() explicitly, causing it to not recognize touchscreen input. It’s been now fixed.

- The source has been updated to work with the latest releases of devkitARM (r36) and libnds (1.5.4).

- The artwork has been modified a little, to make text easier to read.

And that’s it.

Get it at http://code.google.com/p/bitsweeper/downloads/detail?name=Bitsweeper.zip . Get the sources at the address above.

And visit my page at: http://dsotaku.drunkencoders.com/  for more details on my other projects.

We are also excited to announce that Moon Books Publishing is now entering the new market of comic books on the Amazon Kindle.

Reefer Madness – Docudrama about how ‘reefer’ can lead to all kindsa bad stuff, including murder, rape and insanity.

Sex Madness – Wild parties, lesbianism, and premarital sex are some of the forms of ‘madness’ portrayed.

Movies:
George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead
Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space
Roger Corman’s The Fast and the Furious
Roger Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors
The Charlie Chaplin Film Festival

Books:
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars
Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds

(quoting myself from a week or so ago)
The Moon Books Project has re-re-launched, with an exciting new interface and all of our exciting old content intact!

That’s right NDS homebrew enthusiasts, head on over and download all of your favorite homebrew games and applications (homebrew and application section under construction. You can also download all of the comics, books and movies (over 150 movies!) from our comic, book and movie download section (also under construction, but fully functional).

So head on over, sign up, hang out and download a movie or two, I personally recommend DOA and Night of the Living Dead.

And remember all of our content is in the public domain, and is freely and legally downloadable.

The Moon Books Project

First Place: Maze of Apocrypha

Graphics: 4
Sound: 5
Music: 3
Controls: 3
Network: 0
Fun: 4 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 28 / 40

A very entertaining maze game, I found it both challenging and interesting to play. I loved the sound keyed game events, the randomness of the maze, and the feel of the game. Great work and the only “complete” game entered.

Second Place:Icecapades

Graphics: 4
Sound: 0
Music: 3
Controls: 3
Network: 3
Fun: 2 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 22 / 40

First, i loved the coder art. The judging between the last 4 entries was tight and while perhaps a bit odd this game ended up on top as it was the only one to attempt multiplayer.
Could have used a few more days of coding and will be interesting to see it finished up

Third Place: Slippery Cave

Graphics: 3
Sound: 0
Music: 3
Controls: 3
Network: 0
Fun: 3.5 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 21 / 40

Pretty standard gameplay…surprised to see a lua entry but turned out rather well. A nice little puzzler.

And tied for 4/5

Tuxslides

Graphics: 3
Sound: 0
Music: 3
Controls: 3
Network: 0
Fun: 3 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 20 / 40

It was a bit hard as the collision boxes were a bit unforgiving for the speed…fortunately it was short enough to make up for it

Winters End

Graphics: 3
Sound: 0
Music: 3
Controls: 4
Network: 0
Fun: 2.5 x 2
Theme: 5

Total: 20 / 40

The only wii entry, a simple puzzler with a snow sucking snowman. Would have been drastically improved with the addition of some enemies to thwart what was otherwise a so-simple-it-got-dull-fast game. Great work and very smooth accelerometer controls.

Top three be certain to email me your paypal address to award the prizes!

That’s right NDS homebrew enthusiasts, head on over and download all of your favorite homebrew games and applications (homebrew and application section under construction. You can also download all of the comics, books and movies (over 150 movies!) from our comic, book and movie download section (also under construction, but fully functional).

So head on over, sign up, hang out and download a movie or two, I personally recommend DOA and Night of the Living Dead.

And remember all of our content is in the public domain, and is freely and legally downloadable.

The Moon Books Project

Only 5 entries this year, a disappointing turn out but time has been a challenge and I did not do well advertising it this year.

Because of the low turnout and only one Wii entry the entries will be grouped this year and judged together.

Happy judging and intend on having the results by the beginning of next week.

If you don’t see your entry in the zip i did not get it. I am willing to blame that on my shoddy email until Saturday morning so message me if you feel you have been missed.

dovoto@drunkencoders.com

2010 – 2011 Winter programming competition