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Xplode, a simple open source J2ME game I’ve been coding some time just for fun is has gained a “quite playable” status now… So if you own a touch screen enabled device or just like to take a look at some source -- please stay with me for a sec ;-)

Xplode‘s idea is very simple, and not so new as I realized after finding the game: boomshine online. The basic gameplay idea is simple: create an explosion (by tapping the screen) that will trigger another one as anything that touches an explosion -- also explodes. The first introduced gameplay mode (chain eXplosion) is all about creating longer than the requested chain explosions, as you succesfully explode a long enough chain, you advance to the next level -- with more dots on the field, and a longer chain to break… The overall goal is “high score hunting” I guess… High Score tracking isn’t implemented yet, but I guess I’ll eventually add it to try out the J2ME’s persistent data storage.

The game is 100% free software (and open source) and is licensed under the General Public License 3, so if your interested, go check out the code at: http://kenai.com/projects/xplode also, more information about the game can be found at the wiki there: http://kenai.com/projects/xplode/pages/Home along with an explanation what the Giant Enemy Crab joke means… ;-) If your interested in a prebuild jar/jad package, please download: http://www.uploadmysoul.project13.pl/files/xplode_initial.tar.gz which includes the source, and the files needed to install and run the game on your phone (in the dist folder, yup, the jad and jar files).

For those of you who want to see the game in action, or even see it’s prototype versions and experiments with the manual implementation of semi transparent drawing I’ve created the bellow video, take a look if you’re interested (skip the ~1st minute if you don’t care about the “pre-release test versions”).

Soundtrack: Reality by mindthings from the album The First Emotion
from Jamendo.com licensed under Creative Commons