DC Dumbbell released

A new game has been ported to the DC by Reaper, it’s called Dumbbell & requires a keyboard to play. Here’s an explanation of what the game is about from one of the text files included in the zip:

You control a constantly moving dot. You can change the dot’s direction,
making it move up, down, left, or right, although you cannot turn around 180
degrees. As the dot moves, it leaves behind a trail of slime, forming lines
or, if you make enough turns, more complex designs. Any contact with the
slime trail will be fatal, so you must be careful to avoid it.

Avoiding the slime trail is possible thanks to dumbbells. At any particular
time, there is one dumbbell in a random location on the screen. When the dot
comes in contact with the dumbbell, the dumbbell will be erased and a new one
will appear in another random location. Meanwhile, the dumbbell will have
cleaned up all slime within a small square around it. In this way, dumbbells
can make gaps in the slime trail, allowing you to move around more freely.

The Dumbbell zip, which besides the DC version of the game also comes with the PC version + the source, can be downloaded from IMRTech.

Reaper has also mentioned that this is the first of a slew of open source SDL linux/windows games that he plans on porting to the DC, all of which will require a keyboard, so if you want to enjoy some of the games the he will be bring our way, it might be worthwhile picking up a DC keyboard if you don’t have one already.