Magic Touch (Nintendo DS)

Magic Touch
Development
Released	September 2008
Credits	DS Port Birslip (Arthur Guibert)
Websites	pdroms.de
Gameplay
Play it	PDRom's
Genre	Action
Controls	Touch/stylus - Draw shapes
Music
Main	File:Music MT.ogg
Other
Based on Magic Touch
Special	Game is not ported by Nitrome

A version of Magic Touch was ported from Adobe Flash to a version for Nintendo DS by Arthur Guibert before he joined Nitrome. The game is mostly the same as the original Magic Touch. The Nintendo DS version was featured in a blog post on the Nitrome blog^{[citation needed]}.

Controls

• Touch/stylus - Draw shapes

Objective

Like the Flash version of Magic Touch, the player has to eliminate knights as they fall for as long as possible.

Gameplay

The gameplay is exactly the same as the original game.

Differences

In-game

Knights are smaller in the DS version when descending downwards, but come to regular size when landing on the castle. Knights that land will not cheer upon landing on the castle, and the wizard will not leave. Also, the game doesn't end when one knight reaches the castle like in the Flash version. Instead, it takes five knights (sometimes six) landing on the castle for game to end. Although in the regular Magic Touch knights will descend onto the screen with more balloons as the player continues playing, all knights in the DS version will always have one balloon, regardless of how far the player has progressed.

Scoring

In the original Magic Touch, the player earned points by popping balloons. This is the same in the DS version, except the player also earns points every second they stay alive. It is impossible to do this in the Flash version, but has been achieved by hacking the high scores.

Gameplay

The player can use as much ink as they want, unlike the Flash version where they had a bar which showed how much ink they had left, meaning they could only use a certain amount of ink before having to wait for what they drew to disappear.

Another addition to the DS version is the pink balloon, which has a "Z" on its side. Also another difference is that when the right shape was drawn, instead of a robot falling, it would simply disappear.

The game is over when five knights lands on the castle, as opposed to the Flash version where the game is ended when one knight lands on the castle.

Menu

The credits and help section stayed the same as they were in the Flash version, except for the "Scores" button on the menu, which would start the game if double tapped with the stylus. When the game was started, an image of the Nitrome logo is shown and the music for the title screen would play.

Gallery

Magic Touch on DS

Gameplay of Magic Touch Nintendo DS on a Nintendo DSi

Nitrome - Magic Touch in Nintendo DS

Gameplay of Magic Touch Nintendo DS on a Nintendo DS emulator

The menu of the game

A screenshot of the game