Nickname: Melw
Project name : Dicewars DS
Division: NDS Game
Original enter : YES
In last NEO Compo this project won in the top 10 : NO
Project description: Dicewars DS is a multiplayer online strategy game in a Risk-like fashion on Nintendo DS. Your task is to conquer the whole world by rolling dice. Only one can survive in the end of the game!
* DESCRIPTION
Dicewars DS is a multiplayer version of a popular Flash based strategy
game (
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html) for Nintendo DS
handheld console. Your task is to conquer the whole game field by rolling
dice. Each turn you may attack any opponent's territory from one of your
adjacent territories as long as your territory has more than one die on
it. When attacking, If you roll more than the defender, you win.
* HOW TO RUN
Please run on real hardware if possible. Pretty much any flash adapter
able to run homebrew application is good enough, and also booting with
wmb works. If you must use an emulator (not recommended), try No$gba:
http://nocash.emubase.de/gba.htm* NOTES
The multiplayer / network game mode is still considered experimental
and may have stability issues. However, if your connection drops or
the network game crashes, you may re-join back to the same game (the
server will play your turn passively meanwhile). There's currently
no way to configure your wifi settings in the options menu, instead
the game searches for previously saved WFC settings from the DS
firmware - if you've played any of the commercial games using wifi,
this should be sufficient.
The network game requires at least 2 players to start and is currently
accepting up to 7 players at once. A grey name in the game lobby means
player wants to wait for more players, and a black player name indicates
the player is already ready to start the game.
* AUTHORS
Matti Palosuo: programming and implementation
Reko Nokkanen: graphics
Jari Pitkänen: sound design
Taro Ito: original game design
* UPDATE (19.08.07)
I've uploaded again modified version (0.3.2) that includes visual tweaks such as dice being piled in the end of turn and fixes on the network game.
The multiplayer wifi game is now playable, but there may be stability issues - sometimes the DS may crash or lose a connection.
*** UPDATE (11.10.07)
Another update: Dicewars DS v0.4.0 has been released. The old 0.3.x versions don't work when it comes to network games, so please download the attached zip if you want to play online games.
