DSiWare - newly announced software thread

[abigsmurf]

Pictopict: you have to make 4 in a row (or four in a block) of a colour as it drops. If you touch the falling block or it 'lands' it changes into smaller blocks that you can suck up.

If you get four in a row, it will instantly drop anything connected to it and pause things for a bit. If you then get more 4's before things start moving again you get a combo multiplier. Every block you destroy fills up the sprite on the top screen, once the sprite is filled, you complete the level, combo mulitpliers increase the number of blocks filled.

[kryss]

500 points this week:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/kjtj/index.html

A detective game.

[abigsmurf]

That isn't a demo of that miami law is it?

[kryss]

It's from this series.

[kryss]

June 24th J-releases.

200 points;
JHS English Vocabulary Word Puzzle
For testing/practicing basic japanese-english translating.

500 points:
otegaru Puzzle series Chiria no doubutsu koya

800 points:
Real Soccer 2009
Rhythm de kitaeru atarashii eigozuke Native kaiwahen
(English conversation training)

[kryss]

Nintendo snuck 2 more in there, 500 points each.

Dekisugi Tingle Pack

Dragon Quest Wars

[kryss]

Crossword house Vol. 2 500 points
Mahoujin to ime-ji keisan (the magician and the picture calculator?) 200 points

[honeymustard]

Does anyone know when Mario vs DK is coming out in Japan?

[kryss]

No idea yet sadly. I'm after it too.

Not one, not two but TEN Electroplankton characters are making their way to DSi. Starting next Wednesday @200points a piece.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/electroplankton/#/charactor/trapy

[dno]

Just been playing Boxlife, it's a really neat little puzzle game where you cut out shapes in paper and fold them into cubes to remove them.

[kryss]

There's a first play thread under the title "hacolife". I love it too.

Game and Watch coming to DSiWare!

Ball, flagman, vermin and judge are our July 15th, helmet and chef are out July 29th and donky kong Jr, mario's cement factory and manhole are out in August.
200 points each.

[kryss]

Escape from the secret room was out on the 22nd for 500 points.

Coming out on the 29th we have:
200 points
Some "leftbrain-rightbrain" linking training

500 points
Othello
500 points! Thievry!
More crosswords (vol3)
Magical Drop

800 points
Card Hero: Speed Battle Custom
Looks like a smaller version of Kousoku Card Battle CardHero that was released on the DS a while back.
Pocket Rurubu Hokkaido/Okinawa

[toythatkills]

Any ideas what the rules of this are? It looks a bit too easy so there must be something going on there.

[kryss]

I have it (of course): wakugumi no jikan

The idea is that you surround one colour with another and both disappear. The way to get decent points is to meet criteria like "get rid of 40 pieces", "get rid of 4 sets simultaneously", etc.
It really isn't as easy as it looks as when you get to higher levels the timer zooms down.
Second to Hacolife it's the best thing on DSiWare.

[kryss]

August 5th:

500 points
Utsu****e jikkan! Diet Memo
Otona no tame no Keisan Training
Another one of those detective ones

800 points
Asphalt 4 Elite Racing

That racing one looks okay for the money.