If you've played Drakonite/Makeshift Development's last Droplet'sgame, you'll be pleased that they came up with a new version. Your mission, if you decide to ever take it, is to totally obliterate all those blue blobs by targeting drops on other blobs. This will cause a chain reaction in which they will naturally hit each other and destroy each other.

According to the creators, they've taken out the mp3 playback and added the standard background music. The level generator should now produce better levels than the last game, as well as some other smaller changes and bug fixes.

We like the colors! Nothing relaxes gamer's tired eyes like a blue-hued game. The ability to change the wallpaper in-game was great as well. At first, this seems to be a game for the long commutes (times when you just want to zonk out of existence, empty your mind of all worldy problems, and involve yourself in an easy game). That's what you think! This game will require you to think of ways to clear out all the bubbles on the board with as few "drops" as possible as you only have a limited amount to your arsenal. There was one point where we just used one drop to clear out all the bubbles in the field.

Download: [Droplets Ver. 1.5]

PS2Dev have posted the results of their Fourth Creation Game competition today. In case you haven't been following this competition, the nominees for the PSP part of this competition were:

• Jump Gunnar, Jump from PSPSMM
  
• Meeku's Quest - Beyond the Gateway for PSP by illfoundedmind Production Studio
• Break-IN by OmegaGames
• PSPTris by Sandberg
• Droplets from Drakonite/Makeshift Development

More information on the competition entries can be found here. There were three judges for the PS2Dev PSP competition, and the outcome was very close between the 5 homebrew games entered. PS2Dev would like say that both Break-In and Jump Gunnar, Jump had no sound, and if they had sound, it would have considerably increased their score.

However, the overall winner was Droplets by Drakonite - Well done to him! He is now the proud owner of the console of his choice - a PS2 or a PSP! Here's the results for each of the entries, scored in points:

• Droplets for PSP: 34.6
• PSPTris: 31.5
• Meeku's Quest: 25.6
• Break-In: 23.5
• Jump Gunnar, Jump!: 19.6

For the poor souls that have missed out on the PS2Dev competition, why not enter into the QJ.net Summer Homebrew Competition. There's still time to submit your entries, and a helluva lot of prizes to be won!

We can expect a barrage of homebrew games to come our way this week, as developers try to win a new PSP with PS2Dev's Fourth Creation 2006. Why just yesterday, we featured PSPMM's entry. Now it's time to put the spotlight on yet another entry: Drakonite/Makeshift Development's Droplets for PSP v1.0.

If I were to judge this game, it's sure to get a high score. Being the water person that I am, it amused me to be playing a game that's dominantly colored blue ocean and that displays sea creatures in the backdrop. The gameplay is not bad as well.

The objective of the game is to clear the blobs (those water droplets) off the board. To do this, you'd need to selectively fill certain blobs until they burst, causing their droplets to go floating towards neighboring blobs causing them to burst as well.

You start off the game with only 10 drops and are rewarded with an extra drop when you beat a level. Every three blobs involved in a combo also gives you an extra blob. Make sure to use your drops wisely, because using them all up means 'Game Over'.

The controls for this game are as follows:

• D-Pad Move cursor
• Analog Move cursor
• Cross Add drop to blob
• Square Toggle between sound effects and music
• L/R Change current song (if music is enabled)

Speaking of music, a cool feature of this game is that it allows you to play MP3 files saved in your ms0:/PSP/MUSIC/. Just enable music, and sound effects will be disabled to allow you to your music.

Try Droplets out for yourself and see why it ranks high in my scorecards. Have fun!

Download: [Droplets for PSP v1.0]