Rocks'n'Diamonds 4.4.0.0 released!
2024-12-24Finally! 40 years after the first release of The Game That Started It All, nearly 30 years after the first release of my own little clone of this game, around 20 years after I first planned to add native BD support to it, 10 years after something like a vague announcement in the Boulder Dash forum, and after more than one year of hard work, it is finally done: Rocks’n’Diamonds has a new native game engine that is compatible with levels for the classic game Boulder Dash!
The new game engine is based on the famous BD clone GDash by Czirkos Zoltan, which most probably has the best freely available BD compatible game engine.
This game engine will make it possible to play all those thousands of BD games created since the Atari and C64 era, up to the present day! The new game release comes with a large collection of BD level sets, available from the Levels & Artwork page.
Besides the new BD game engine, there are some other new features:
- added support for opening level set zip files in Android version
- added support for updating level sets installed by drag’n’drop
- added support for level specific colors by using specially crafted images
- added support for level specific information text messages from main menu
- added support for optional level info (“story”) before starting the game
Now available from the download page!
And I wish you all happy christmas holidays! :-)
