I'm aware of falling sand too, but I don't think it's as fun, personally.


On a side note, I found a corrupted BASIC program today that also happens to be my sprite editor. Looks like I'll have to do this by hand as I don't have a link cable available to replace it on my calc. Ah, ye good olde days of programming... 

Yay! Significant breakthrough that will save me a lot of time 

No, because this is in a test program, not Powder itself. I'm using it as a development platform while I get Powder back to the point at which I can test the higher level stuff.

The program version will give you access to six or seven different materials. I may do an app version which will have many more elements, but only if I can figure out how to make make the code modular enough to allow downloadable updates.

However, one feature that I'm certain will not make it into any version is the player character. I've looked at that and it would take a lot of weird pseudo-physics to get the player to move properly. The processor in the calc can barely handle the physics engine for a lot of particles, so complicated physics are out of the question.

I'm temporarily putting this on hold, for reasons that I may or may not remember when I resume it again.

a bit offtopic maybe, but i have another really good powder game: you can download it here

So, how's this going? This topic is kind of going death

I should be resuming this project after I:

1) Stop hacking my Kindle long enough to get something productive done.
2) Get my website to a functional state.
3) Finish documenting the bitmap formatting for .g3p files.
4) Look through the documentation for the ISO/IEC 14496-12 standard.
5) Crack the .g3b format.
6) Buy a Prizm.
7) Buy textbooks.
8) Actually do my duties as a mentor.
9) Work.
...
N) Finish the routine testbed program.

You're gonna hack Prizm and .3gp files/.bmp before buying one? Hum... Good Luck