Pull Pull Pullpy, the third student-developed release from last year’s Nintendo Game Seminar. Those of you with access to Japan’s Nintendo Channel or Nintendo Zone download stations can download the game this (and next week). Otherwise, you’ll have to wait for someone to post a ripped and unauthorized ROM online.

This simple platformer has you stretching a worm-like character to reach items and traverse floating globes. It looks perfect for a free DSiWare release (in the U.S.).

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Planetaria, the first game to be released from the 2010 Nintendo Game Seminar. Every year, Nintendo of Japan hosts a game design seminar, and releases student projects the following year through DS download stations and the Wii Nintendo Channel, and absolutely nowhere outside of Japan.

This is the first game from the 2010 seminar, a sort of Art Style: Orbient/Bit.Generations Orbital game in which the player taps the screen to attract a comet, in order to make the comet collect star-shaped items and orbit planets. Nintendo has yet to announce a time period for this game — the seminar games are made available for a limited period through each distribution channel.

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Ototo, the third game in Nintendo’s Game Seminar 2009 student game series. In this game, you slide the stylus up and down through two horizontal lines to make notes of a certain pitch. Sometimes you’re matching phrases played by a cute sea critter, and sometimes you’re freestyling music for another undersea musician to match.

I’d love to know where these students end up. I kind of have this fear that after making clever, well-designed, adorable games for this educational program, most of them end up in Square Enix QA or something. The games, of course, end up nowhere, after their limited availability from DS download stations and the Nintendo Channel. Oh, I’ve made myself sad. Let’s all watch the cute game again.

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Trailer for Doumo, DS Desu (Hello, I’m DS), a student game from the 2009 Nintendo Game Seminar. In this game, the DS itself, personified by a face on the top screen, interacts with the player, carrying on conversations in synthesized Japanese, playing games like tic-tac-toe, and even collaborating with the player to draw an undersea scene. It’s a chance for DS nerds to bond with their handhelds!

This game is available for download play through the Nintendo Channel in Japan through April 6, from DS download stations through April 7, McDonalds/Tsukuba Express Nintendo Zones March 26 through April 8, and on DSiWare never, for some reason.

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Import: Japanese Nintendo DSi XL/LL (Natural White, Dark Brown, Wine Red) & Standard DSi (White, Black, Pink, Red, Lime Green, Metallic Blue)

See also: Draw Draw Penner

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Draw Draw Penner, one of four student-made games produced at this year’s Nintendo Game Seminar. In this sorta-shoot’em-up, you’re trying to stop top-screen enemies who are trying to ruin your picture book.

The mechanics remind me of Arkedo’s Big Bang Mini; you draw a line on the touchscreen, which shoots up to hit the bugs and blobs. The twist is that depending on the curves of your line or its shape, your drawn projectile will move across the screens in different ways.

Nintendo will make Draw Draw Penner available as a free download for a limited time in Japan starting next week through DS Stations, its Nintendo Zone hotspots, and Wii’s Minna no Nintendo Channel. Unfortunately, because the game is sent to your system via the download play feature, when you turn off your DS, you’ll lose the game.

I have no idea why Nintendo doesn’t smarten up and make these student-created titles available through the DsiWare shop (or outside Japan). Harrumph.

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Ugo Ugo Trinity (student-made game) trailer.

Should your memory fail you, UUT is the third free and downloadable release to come out this year from Nintendo’s annual Game Seminar, following after Fufu Kirarin and Re: Koetist.

This game uses the DS’s mic for three minigames:

1. Clap your hands next to the microphone at the right time to squash the mosquitos.
2. Um, I’m not sure about this one. It has something to do with ninjas, so it can’t be too terrible.
3. Blow into the mic to properly cook the kabobs.

It’s all very odd and without much depth to it, but at least it’s free! … in Japan.

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24 minutes of student-made DS game Fufu Kirarin, a downloadable shoot’em-up that has players blowing into the microphone to send stars skyward. You can skip the boring download portion and start at the 01:55 mark.

As far as I know, this is the first direct-screen footage for a release from Nintendo’s annual Game Seminar student program in four years. Because it’s such a short title, this video manages to run through the entire game all the way to the end credits, so beware of spoilers!

The only other video I’ve ever seen for a Nintendo Game Seminar release is this offscreen clip of Nekosogi Tornado from 2005, a really neat Katamari-esque shoot’em in which players grabbed bits of the scrolling stage with their styus, flinging the junk at top-screen enemies.

Hopefully, we’ll see more direct-screen video of this year’s other Game Seminar titles. I’m also crossing my fingers that the games will be released through DSiWare.

Import: Japanese Nintendo DSi (White, Black, Pink, Lime Green, Metallic Blue)

Preorder: U.S. Matte Black and Blue DSi

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