I love your title screen music.  Very catchy and old-school.

Thank you so much for your feedback!  I agree that it could do with some new baddies.  Call this one "Version 1.0".  More baddies to come.

Yes.  I've pulled assets from the .jar in other projects. Putting the polygon data into the java source really only saves the space that would have been taken up by IO code.  The way I've done audio really saves a lot more space.  I generate the audio programmatically through functions, so instead of a kilobytes-long audio file, I have just a few lines of code per sound.

Free download at: tylergriffin.me
Link: http://tylergriffin.me/PolygonSkirmish.jar


A fast-paced 2D shooter I've been working on in Java. I've done some things to eliminate all external asset files, so the game is fairly small on disk. The audio is synthesized on startup, and the polygon information for the characters is built into the source code. I created their shapes in Blender 2.63, exported them as .obj files, then used a program I wrote to grab the points out of the .obj files and print out useable Java source code (just big array declarations).

I hope to continue working on this project. I want to add more advanced AI and more weapons, enemies and effects.  I may be posting the source code on tylergriffin.me in the not-too-distant future.

Any feedback, technical or not, is appreciated.