Totally awesome. Very good game. Like it a lot!

@Demonpants:

First, thanks for your effort and work to set up a little competition.
Although my time is very limited and I do not know if I manage to
enter - I like competition a lot in general.

About the libraries I totally agree with kevglass. There is no need
to exclude certain libraries in my eyes. From my experience I can say
that competitions like this works best when you just limit them to a
certain theme and that's all. Ok, in this special case it is ok to limit
it to the java language - but I would not limit the use of libraries.

It exaclty like you say - why re-invent the wheel over and over again.
Libraries provide a set of (mostly) well tested basic functionalities.
Why not start coding on basis of that to create something new ?

Anyway ... looking forward to see the entires ... thanks again for
putting so much work into it!

@CommanderKeith:

Hmm .. interesting questions. When looking at the following picture,
e.g. :

http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=11696&s=S&PHPSESSID=ad3da04375c058dd75335f734f60113c

I could imagine that it would be possible. You could play with the
following:

1.) Create a noise pattern with "sandy" colors. Then you might
end up with something similar to the above image.

2.) Then use my Vein code to simulate the "cracks" in the earth
using black color. If you modifiy this a bit with random starting
position etc. - this might end up in an interesting texture.


Feel free to try it and post some examples if you are done. Interesting
idea.

Good luck 

So true. Thanks for reminder!

That's amazingly cool. Well done.

Great site with interesting stuff on it.
The link section is also very treasury.

Thanks for sharing link!

wow ... cool ... thanks a lot ...

Thanks for answering.

Yup, so far I had no success. Seems like such a thing doesnt
exist yet. That's what I heard on other forums, too.

Making it on my own ? Nah .. think this would be a too complex
project for me right now. Unfortunately - no time 

None-reproducable error - I hate them 
Thanks anyway for testing and reporting!

@zammbi:

Thanks for the error reporting. This is really strange.
Seems that javamod causes that error.

Could you try this applet please:

http://labs.weltenkonstrukteur.de/sketchycube

I used another player in here (MicroMod replay routine).

Hi all,

does anybody know if there exists an Rich XML Editor. That means,
something like TinyMCE only for easily editing XML documents.

Some features should be:

Added a XML structure or a DTD and setting some nodes/attributes which
should be editable ?

Had already a search on the net - but I found normal windows app only 

Thanks in advance.

@Corysia:

Thanks for sharing. Although this PDF seems not up-to-date since
phones like C702 for example are missing. Nevertheless, the SE
developer pages offer some valuable information and tutorials.

For a recent tech-info list you might also try:

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/products/phonegallery/p_phonegallery.jsp

Thanks for reporting. Strange ? If it runs on IE - does this mean that it is an error
in Opera ? Anyone can help ?

Tested it on Sony Ericsson C702. Runs smooth and solid
here. Well done - good game!

Thanks for the nice words - glad you like it.

@bienator:
Wow ... what a cool link. Never heard about that screensaver project
before. Really interesting. Thanks a lot for sharing!

@zammbi:
Thanks. Glad you like it.

@CommanderKeith:
Thanks for reporting. Strangely, I got this error before several
times. But after clearing my cache and restarting browser I never
got this error again ? I also browsed google concerning this error -
but didnt come to a solution.

Hmmm ... that's really strange - anyone can give a hint ?

Hi,

not a game - just a little effect as an applet.
Source is also available - so maybe someone find it useful:

http://labs.weltenkonstrukteur.de/grassveins

Requires Java RTE1.6.

Greetings,
benny!

Looks good. Well done.

One thing irritates me though. In GL mode ('H') the zoom
functionality doesn't work and somehow in software mode
('S') it seems to run a little smoother and the zoom does
work.

Anyway - useful applet!

@markus:

Thanks. Didn't know those parameters. Btw. Is there a
reliable statistics on how many users have jre1.6 installed ?

Hi all,

maybe this is a newbie question - but I wonder which ways/frameworks
exists to hide the java loading screen (orange logo) when initializing an
applet ?

E.g. the pulpcore framework uses some javascript effects to put an layer
over the applet area until the applet is loaded ? Are there some generic
frameworks for this available ?

Any hint is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
benny!

As I already posted in this post http://www.java-gaming.org/forums/index.php?topic=16300.0 -
the only engine I know of is - PSTROS - see :

http://www.volny.cz/molej/pstros/index.htm

@Oss117:
AFAIK is it not possible or in other words the MIDP is a special profile for mobile devices
and it's not integrated in the standard edition.

@topic:
I found this project you might be interested in it - didn't test it as it is still in development
and has some bugs in it - but it might be worth keeping an eye on :

http://www.volny.cz/molej/pstros/index.htm

@simulatoralive:

thanks for pointing that out - unfortunately it doesnt seem to work here. Got the following
exception :

Are there any demos available which show some features of your engine ?

Indeed. Your homepage and the given infos just sounds perfectly. "Unfortunately", I am not
looking for a new job atm. But it really sounds like an interesting job offer.

Wish you good luck for recruiting new engineers !

Definately. This would be all I needed atm. Would be nice to see those features in the standard
edition as well.


Ok. The term lightweight might be mistaken I bit of mine. I wanted to point out that I just needed
the basic function ( like the one you mentioned provided with MIDP2.0 ). The amount of kilobytes isn't
that important for me.

Physics arent important for the games I intended to write ( very basic cusual games ) - and the frame-
rate should be something around 40 on a standard pc.



Ja. This might be not as lightweight as I wanted - but nevertheless, thanks for giving the link. Didnt see
it before. Might be of some interest in future - so I will keep an eye on the development.

Again, thanks for answering ...

Just saw this thread. Screenies and  feature list sounds just great ! Really
looking forward to see the first BETA. Good luck ...

Indeed. Very fun to play this game. You should definately add some highscore system,
real levels and so on.

One graphical enhancement could be to make the players sprite bigger / to zoom it when
you got over a darker green area ( which should represent the heightness I think ).

Anyway - really looking forward to see your game evolving. Well done !!!

@Eliwood:

Thanks for the links. I will try GTGE next week and do some performance tests
and will post them here.


@kevglass:

Thanks for pointing that out.

Hi all.

Apart from the well known engines which also support 3D - I wonder if there are any lightweighed, simple, fast
2D only engines which features some basic things like :

- Sprite ( animation )
- Collision detection
- Tiled Layer functionality

Doesn't need to support any sound, physics or 3d features. My aim is to write some simple java 2d applets for
fun and I dont want to re-invent the wheel.

Any help,hints and links are appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
benny!