I finally got a chance to sit down and start sputtering out some code for IQDS. For those who haven’t yet heard, this is going to be a clone of the classic puzzle game Intelligent Qube for PSX. To add to that great news, I actually got something that runs for my first daily build! For now, you can tap the screen to lay a bomb, and press B to clear the bomb. Source is included in the distribution. I spent some time making it extra squeaky clean for anybody who wants to check it out.

Also, I found another bug with the makefile in my template. When you make a distribution between 00:00 and 09:00 it cuts off the first 0 and replaces it with a space. This was confusing 7zip causing the time and the .zip portion of the filename to be left off. The bug has been fixed and the new template package uploaded.

As always, both of these can be found in the DS Projects page.

Update: The bug that made this demo not work on hardware has been found and squashed. The link on the DS Projects page has been updated.

For this first edition of Tuesdays with Flannel, I’m going to tell you about the fierce rivalry between Wood and Water.

A long time ago before Wood was used to make furniture and the Spruce Goose (yea, the one Yogi Bear flew in 1987), Wood and Water had a normal friendship. They helped each other whenever they could, and they lived happily ever after.

But not EVER after. Back in the 1850s, Wood formed an alliance with the dirty humans, and Water didn’t like that. The traitorous Wood was allowing the wretched humans to carve and shape it into forms other than the graceful Tree, such as the wooden chair, the wooden nickel, and Log (it’s better than bad, it’s good!). Soon the humans were even using wood to boil Water with flaming Wood and sail on Water with wooden boats! The horror! This perturbed Water to such a degree that it placed a curse on Wood; whenever tainted Wood touched water, it would slowly rot and become discolored.

Next week, I’ll reveal the truth about the Birds and the Bees.