The Nintendo DS - my new sketchbook

[East]

Found this really neat homebrew application for the Nintendo DS called Colors! (http://collectingsmiles.com/colors/), and damn it's one neat little piece of software. It's developed by Jens Andersson at Starbreeze (http://www.starbreeze.com/home.jsp), and has a few nice features, such as pressure sensitivity (I didn't know the DS supported that) and timelapse playback.

For my very first piece I of course tried my hands on the GameArtisans.org logo, as you can see attached. I kinda ran out of space at the end.. :p I also recorded a quick timelapse video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xMWbdjkcGn0) which you can find over at YouTube.

If any of you guys have a DS and can run homebrew, I highly recommend this little thing to play around with :) Oh, and for the sake of full disclosure.. well.. I have nothing to disclose, I don't know Jens :p

Edit: Oh, and there's also a gallery available (http://colors.brombra.net/index.php?page=1) where people have submitted their own works of art.

[FredH]

Niice! I am also kind of shocked that the ds has pressure sensitivity. If you didn't say it, I would never have believed it.

[East]

The funny thing is the pressure sensitivity works better and is more responsive than that of my now aging Wacom Intuos2.. :think:

Has anyone seen it being used in a game? I can imagine there being lots of uses for it, but so far I haven't played a single game utilizing it.

[EVIL]

I so want a DS right now! I emulated it via an emulator and is works a bit .. well slow because the NDS emulatoirs aren't as good as the GBA ones yet. but it looks like it would work really well on a DS.

[Lamont]

Wow!! I didn't know the DS had pressure sensitivity :D!!