Earlier, we posted about student-made DS games that have hit Japan. Reader Ryan, the trooper that he is, sent some pics and a hands-on description. He writes:

Thanks to Kotaku I learned about those Japanese student DS games that Nintendo is making available on it's download kiosks. I know that those who can't try these games might be interested, so I decided to throw together a little sampling.

I downloaded the game where you draw pictures corresponding to music in order to communicate with extraterrestrials. ...The premise of the game seems to be that clues to a riddle are given through the lyrics of a song, meanwhile you are given cues to draw certain shapes in specific regions of the screen. For example, in the center of the screen; draw a pocket, on the top of the screen; draw a wrench, and slowly a Beetle drawing emerges. At the end it asks you what the song and drawing is eluding to, and this will answer the riddle. It's rather charming, and I was surprised by the production quality. If I wasn't told ahead of time, I might not have realized this was created by students.

Wow! I wasn't expecting these student games to look like, well, actual games. That you could play. Nintendo can sure scout 'em, huh? Brian Ashcraft

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