This is one (big) reason why i probably wont be making any more java games (except maybe 4k .

About a year ago I made a puzzle game java applet (http://spacetaken.net/laz3r/). It is a pretty simple game and has little in the way of polish.

Very recently I have been learning flash, using the free flex2 sdk to write flash applets in pure actionscript 3. I converted my laz3r game into flash, added (very little) extra polish, and submitted it to kongregate as something of an experiment - http://www.kongregate.com/games/gareth0/faze.

Right now - in less than 48 hours since upping it - the flash version has had 9326 plays, which is an order of magnitude greater than the applet version has ever had, and I have got a few dollars of ad revenue to boot. Which is just great, basically.

EDIT: I guess the point is that it is far easier for me to get feedback (and people playing my games, which is good by itself) using flash.

Your site looks pretty bad without cookies enabled, like there is no style sheet.

nice concept though.

people wont show a keen interest in a vague proposal though. you need to show you have energy and commitment yourself before you can expect other people (at least those who have seen a few of these sorts of things fail ) to seriously consider joining you.

lets establish some vague guidelines (must take ~4 months, allow ~10 people to work on it), then hold a contest for convincing proposals (with details).

i would be willing to commit a few hours a week if like the idea.

i voted RTS, but i think its all rather vague - how about anyone who has a clear idea of how this project could work writes some sort of proposal saying what type of game it is, how people will work on it together, how much effort will be needed and by whom, etc?

then we can judge things that are more concrete.

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i played ikariam (http://www.ikariam.org/) for a while last year, and perhaps this project could produce something like that*, except with an interface so people can write bots - the work could be separated into:

- central game server, with rpc/rest/whatever (networked) api
- web or java2d-based interface to that server, for human players
- bots using the api - anyone can write their own bot/ai

i realise i am somewhat late to the party, just chucking an idea out there.

*ikariam is a real time strategy game, but actions take hours instead of minutes

i like the style/feel, reminds me of yoshis island. im confused as to what im meant to be doing though.

same problem here

up until a week or so a go I had cookies set to expire when i closed firefox, so i typed in my login every visit. "view unread posts since last visit" worked then, but since i allowed cookies to be saved this feature no longer works.

im using firefox 2.

EDIT: deleting cookies fixed it
EDIT2: seems it actually didnt, i guess il just disable cookies again

ive been logged in for 7 days, 18 hours and 44 minutes and im still not a ninja

you should probably use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes, see:

http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/jan/addslashes-versus-mysql-real-escape-string

@javagametome

its not pretty atm, but that fact that you are doing it is good, and i assume it will get better if you continue to keep working on it.

i suggest you make people provide a thumbnail of a certain size when submitting a game, currently the scaling is poor quality and the aspect ratios are all broken

its not pretty, but tbh this isnt a nice looking game: 

http://spacetaken.net/shots/laz3r.png

well its not perfect but i think it makes it easier to download java than the old one, which is good.

i like the new logo, but like others said there is a ton of wasted space with this theme, id prefer one with less scrolling required.

Team Fortress 2 i imagine

Your blog is so sensationalist

http://home.halden.net/tombr/squareheads/squareheads.html

is probably a bit closer to q3 than jake2 if anything is

heh i really dont of course, i just wondered 


eh its final you cant change it

lwjgl applet here, works great.  more tutorial levels are quite helpful. only crit i have is i wish the music was more changeable 

what kind of exception do you get when you concatenate 2 strings where the combined length would be more than Integer.MAX_VALUE ?

erm, webstart version? 

i think the controls are a little clunky, and it is way too hard - the tutorial should continue on for longer. I like the mechanic though.

why thank you for this necro, the first page of this thread was quite an interesting read 

lets build the matrix

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7177&Itemid=1

you got on fudzilla!

very well done, really smooth and fast after the initial lag, hopefully with the new applet plugin it will be even better


imo the initial play button is a better user experience than having the applet load (and thus lag the browser) automatically. I got no "trust" dialogs here, i suppose i must have accepted the certificates previously.

long shot but there could be a default exception handler that simply ignores it?

- is the game working correctly?
yep

- how do you find the game, fun or not? What do you think?
its pretty slow and boring right now, doesnt seem to be much of a challenge

- you're detailed hardware, OS version and Java version
winxp java 1.6 7600gt

- any bug you may encounter
any way to get back to the instructions? - i tryed esc but that quit it  it seems you can place blocks on top of each other, is that a bug?

graphics are quite pretty

looks interesting, the controls feel very  "slippy" though

i agree good idea


i agree that is a problem, there is no reason it cant be done more fairly though - ordering randomly for example, and not showing the currently number of plays or votes for any game until the end of the contest. There could also be a buffer time between the submission deadline and the results to allow for community votes to be a bit fairer.

thanks to appel and the other judges.   


i have to mention this is because the sound doesnt work in 1.5 - i did ask if the judges would be using 1.5 to test - http://www.java-gaming.org/forums/index.php?topic=17958.msg141481#msg141481 

the judges did do a good job (despite some of them not seeming to understand my game ) i would also like a community vote next year, to get more interest in the contest - maybe allow anyone to vote so long as they write a short comment to accompany it.

i dont want to be so negative but i dont see what this is meant to fix. the problem is imo the 1-2 seconds of  browser freeze that you get when the vm loads for the first time and you get that with this too. 

to get answers you will need to ask some questions