Fruit Ninja and Snakecaster were two of my entry programs for TI-Concours this year. (The contest had three sections, the second of which was a paint program which I can't show here because I haven't written a readme for it yet ) My plan for both games was to take a completely ridiculous idea, fashion it into a workable concept, and make something interesting and hopefully fun out of it.

They were actually "released" when the contest ended, but I decided not to publish them anywhere because I soon found a nasty bug that needed to be addressed first. Now that the bug's been fixed, here are both the games on ticalc.org and the Omnimaga archives!

Fruit Ninja

Description: Featuring a revolutionary control scheme, Fruit Ninja is a clone of that famous iPhone game by Halfbrick Studios, complete with bombs, combos, and beautiful 3D graphics. Swipe, flick, and zig-zag across your calculator's keypad to destroy the fruit.

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Snakecaster: A 3D Nibbles Game

Description: You've played Snake. Or Nibbles. Whatever you call it, you probably haven't played it like this. Snakecaster is a raycasted snake game—you can still play the game the usual way, but as you play, a large panel will show you a raycasted 3D scene. Basically, you see the game as the snake sees it (if the snake sees the world in blocks of black and white). It's 3D. In a Nibbles game. It's completely overkill, but hey, why not?

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This is the post that was automatically generated when I added the file to the download section. The text doesn't carry over for me for some reason

Yes, it's the final version, and it's on ticalc: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/450/45003.html

Just know that this version is no different from the one I posted on August 30th, except that it has a nice, long readme attached. The readme is actually larger in size than the program itself

I should probably move this to News here too, if I can find something interesting to add to the OP. Maybe with Snakecaster in tow as my other TI-Concours project. (There's been a serious lack of TI-8x calculator projects in there lately )

EDIT: Did that.

Description: Featuring a revolutionary control scheme

In fact I already made a program like that in January. The touchpad was only concerning the numpad. But that was a crappy unoptimized password program that I never released
Fruit Ninja is a great project to use this control scheme but it is hard to play

Fruit Ninja made ticalc front page!

I had that idea as soon as I got my TI-Nspire (a couple days ago). The trackpad is perfect for the purpose.

I don't want to raise anyone's hopes just yet, but let's wait a few months and see what happens

Fruit ninja really looks and feels astonishing. It takes a minute to get used to the controls. It's best to use your thumb nail I think. I haven't tried 3d snake yet.

Fruit ninja really looks and feels astonishing. It takes a minute to get used to the controls. It's best to use your thumb nail I think.

I've found it's easiest if you use the tip of (the fleshy part of) either your thumb or index finger. I can't imagine how to use a nail O.o

It's also significantly easier on a TI-83 Plus instead of a TI-84 Plus, because the TI-84 Plus has raised ridges on the number keys. You could try playing with just the keys above them, I guess (since they're more round).

350 downloads in one day(!) Wow.

Heh, I wish. It's actually for the past four days, since it was added to the archives on Wednesday.