features a nice gameplay, 50 levels, a large applet window, particle effects. and much more =)

see it here :

http://www.mandrixx.net/java-game-plopnoid2.php

enjoy !

thx swpalmer. I'm working around problems linked to the java 1.4.1_01. If you can try an earlier version of java (like 1.4.0), it should work.

for the mouse cursor problem, I don't know how to remove it with java 1.1. And maybe it's better to see it so you don't leave the applet accidently

thanks again guys

if anyone experienced speed problems with 1.4.1_01, please tell me

thanks for telling about your problem. there should be levels  I see quite exactly where the problem come from. I made things to avoid such problem and you're the first having this problem on over 50000 games played. could you tell me what is your OS/browser/JVM, and tell me if it never works or work randomly ?

thanks

I tried it on JVM 1.4.1_01 with netscape and IE. it works fine except there's a loss of fps compared to 1.4.0, so I don't think the VM is involved  :-/

is the JVM 1.4.1_01 running utterly slow, or is there something to do to make it run smoothly ?

I compiled it with JVM 1.3.1. I'll compile it with the 1.4.1 a little later. maybe there's some deprecated thing used somewhere  

thanks for pointing me this  

grom: yes, it work on anything except the appletviewer, some functions seem to work differently with it. please use a browser

rgeimer: I do a thread sleep. it works great on the comps I have around and share well the cpu time with the other processes. could you tell me about your VM, cpu, OS ?

ride the mad ball and tell me how far you can go. should be working fine on most of the computers with any 1.1 VM, even if it's 512x448  

http://www.mandrixx.net/trail.html

enjoy the gameplay  

try the small version, it should be fine. also try the microsoft VM, it does make a difference on small machines.
that slow down problem is not really related to the memory usage, but more because of the way I manage the balls I think. the balls animation is sampled at a very high rate so the collisions are always pixel-perfect, enven on very slow machines. but this requires to multiply the test on the balls. I didn't thought it could have an impact on some machines though, I don't have any loss of fps here.

I hope you won't pay too much attention to these technical problems and have fun with it

check out my tetris. maybe it will give you good ideas

http://www.mandrixx.net/tootris.html

keep on the good work

well, the gameplay is a lot better than on the original

http://www.mandrixx.net/plopnoid.php
try it and enjoy !