Isn't that normally called the "alpha version"?

I approve of this! *thumbs up*

Work in progress. Will post more later.

Wha? Why? I vote against giving bonus points for sharing the code, and even stronger against making it a rule.

There's one major flaw; the applet needs to know what two letters to display. That means it's trivial to write a program to extract those letters.
One way to get around that would be to stream a video that has the same effect as this applet.

It's a very nice solution otherwise. I spent some time trying to make an image-based cracker, and this is about how far I got:

(The solution was "Qd")

Neat!

Possibly, yeah, but then if it ends up at 4097 bytes, what will you do? :/

As I said, I hadn't thought things through properly. I think you're right!

Oops, lookie at that!
And yeah, I made a bunch of assumptions, especially about concurrency, so there's a whole pile of shortcuts in there.
I found that getting rid of all the sleeps resulted in some files getting a reported size of 0. I assume that's what the final 1000 ms sleep is for.

As for not being production code; it works, it performs a service people want, and you didn't waste days overdesigning it.
I haven't thought about potential security concerns (instinctively, running native code on arbitrary input feels like it SHOULD be a flaw), but that doesn't matter when you're just running it locally.

Sure: http://www.minecraft.net/temp/Compressor.java

Hey, cool! Thank you!

What proguard settings are you using?

The web-based version says:

While the downloaded one says:

I will be participating again this year, and I vote for 1.6.

Wow, that sure is a horribly gutted java 7..

I love PA, and I even more love getting Gabe hooked on the game!

And aiming towards getting a good review by Croshaw is pretty much a perfect game design philosophy. He's got good taste, usually!

That would be pretty neat!

Manhattan (noun):
1) An island in New York, New York
2) abs(x1-x0)+abs(y1-y0)

Made in 48 hours, here's my latest game:


[size=32pt]Play now![/size]

wow

Or XML.

It's highly unlikely my next game will be written in Java.

Java is a wonderful language, and when Sun was in charge there were some people working on trying to keep it viable for gaming (chrism). Sure, sun was slow and strange, but at least there was some kind of effort. I spoke with Sun directly several times about the games I made, and that made me feel like the platform I was trusting my game in would last for many years.

Oracle hasn't contacted me once, despite Minecraft being something of a killer app at this point, and they seem to have no reason at all to keep client side java alive, as there really honestly is no money in it for them. Adding to this that Larry Ellison is BFF with Steve Jobs who recently took a huge plunge into the greedy-go-nuts pool and tries to kill Flash (which does what client-side java does, more or less), and I think the future is mighty bleak.

Sure, it might be kinda possible to fork Java (not so certain because of the patents..), but a forked java would be a much, MUCH smaller platform as almost nobody would have it installed.

What happens is that if you add stuff to a class, it will load just fine. If you remove something (not transient), it will explode. You can work around it by doing your own serialization for that class something along the lines of what princec said, but it's not a pretty solution, and it's much MUCH more complex than just designing a proper file format in the first place.

Never ever do that, people. It's a horrible mistake, and you WILL regret it when you want to change the code structure.

Sure, you can override the actual serialization, but then you're really better own writing your own from scratch.

Thank you. =)

I intend to make the game more transparent. When I started it, the biggest focus was to keep it intuitive, but some of that has gotten lost recently.

Groan. I feel violated. Crackpots.

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The people who made that video, I mean. Not people posting in this thread.
And HI CHRISM! =D

Yeah, I am thinking a lot about what to do. A small game studio would be very nice in the long run, but for now I kind of enjoy being my own boss.
There's a significant lack of social interaction during the weekdays, though.. I'm sure I'll get extremely sick of it eventually.

Yeah, I'm doing a rough draft on the script right now.

Unless they also change the last letter, you mean? It's still possible to edit the string to get anything you want.

Verlet ropes are coming right after bumpmapping and per particle rayleigh scattering emulation.

Neat-o!

I get the feeling that the server this is on is a bit unmanaged at the moment..