Doroppu - new homebrew puzzler

[Zebbe]

http://www.retrocollect.com/News/bra...ega-drive.html

Seems decent enough.

[SEGA.GENESIS1989]

After watching the video i think that the game looks alright. If there is one criticism to make it's that the gameplay is a little too basic. I think that there is room for improvement to add a bit more excitement to the game. From the video it's akin to Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Columns in the sense that you are matching similar elements. In this case the player is required to match 3 blocks of the same color in order to clear the respective area. You will note that after the player matches the blocks, the tiles float upwards and a design element is added of bubbles floating in an upwards direction.

To make the gameplay alot more interesting, why not add a dodging element? As the bloacks float upward, the player should be forced to dodge the blocks and bubbles. That would add another dimension to the game and much more interesting. Rather than one having one tier in which the "hand" can only more left or right, I would add another tier or two in which to dodge the blocks or bubbles. Just a thought ...

Anyways, thanks for the heads up Zebbe! Cheers!

[Raistlin]

Does anyone knows the current status of the (back then) announced cart release? I contacted them through their page but got no reply.

[Lanzz]

They have 2 other Megadrive games in development...
- http://www.repixel8.com/games

[Raistlin]

They have 2 other Megadrive games in development...
- http://www.repixel8.com/games

Yes I know but they wrote:

"Doroppu is released as a Rom download, with a limited physical cartridge release following."

and I wonder what happend to the limited physical release...

[PreZZ]

oh cool they are making an experimental, non official boulder dash prototype, I know intellegentvision released boulder dash last year for intellivision and it was licensed by first star software so i guess they could make a deal with them, this could be a great homebrew title, unlike many others!