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Design a homebrew DS game

Datel goodie bundles up for grabs for budding game programmers

Design a homebrew DS game
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When was the last time a competition rewarded your skills rather than simply insult your intelligence?

You know the usual type: What is the world's tallest mountain? Is it a) Everest b) EverQuest or c) Everlasting Love?

Well, in the interest of redressing the balance, peripheral manufacturer Datel has announced a competition that should thankfully exclude all the thickies. That's because it's aimed at people who have created their own game for DS.

They don't even have to be new games. If you've already programmed and released a palace of playability or your own little grotto of gameplay onto the homebrew scene, feel free to submit it to the competition.

Datel is hoping to offer the very best examples of homebrew games as downloads or, possibly, bundle them with future products.

It's being billed as a celebration of the growing Nintendo DS homebrew scene that sees talented lone programmers conjure up myriad games and applications by using solutions such as – would you believe it! – Datel's very own MAX Media Dock (you simply download the files from sites such as www.maxconsole.net, and transfer to your media dock, then launch them through MAX Media's desktop).

In return for your efforts, there are 50 bundles of Datel DS goodies worth £100 each. But perhaps of more value will be the opportunity of additional distribution and potential exposure opportunities for your game. If you're looking to get into game development, there are certainly more difficult ways.

Datel is not even after exclusive publication rights – winners remain able to distribute their creation online and issue updated releases.

To enter, just send a copy of your game along with a handful of simple instructions to [email protected] by Tuesday October 31st. Lucky winners will be notified by Datel after this date. Good luck, and let us know how you get on!

(p.s. the answer was A, just in case you were wondering…)

Joao Diniz Sanches
Joao Diniz Sanches
With three boys under the age of 10, former Edge editor Joao has given up his dream of making it to F1 and instead spends his time being shot at with Nerf darts. When in work mode, he looks after editorial projects associated with the Pocket Gamer and Steel Media brands.