Star Vox 16k

[teletubo]

Started this one week ago, and I think now it's playable enough to show it!

Commands :
Arrow keys : move
X : shoot
A or Q : rapid fire (consumes power)
S : missiles (consumes power)
double tap Left/Right : superflip, absorbs enemy shots and recharges power for the special weapons

Click here for the applet version (windows,mac,linux)
Click here for the zip version (only jar and .bar/.sh)

I know the jar is 22k, but it's because there are some double files (applet and windowed) and some useless stuff.
If I cut down the useless stuff I'm still at 15k, and if I pack200 it, 8k... So I think I'm still halfway there.

Sound Syntethizer (Synth4k) by ShannonSmith
Music by Alexandre Palma

[princec]

Seriously nice! Why not make it bigger?

And with some of your 8k let's have a title screen and fullscreen mode option And of course, loads more enemies and powerups!

Cas

[kappa]

Oh this is lovely, really like it. The pun on game title is pretty nice too

just curious, why is the applet self signed? looks like a game that can easily just rely on the pre-signed (with a proper certificate) LWJGL jars.

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[Damocles]

The time of the voxel has returned.

Voxels are a geat way to make dynamic worlds, without investing long workhours into artwork.

[Alan_W]

Nice gameplay.  I like the way the asteroids rotate in 3D.  A bigger screen please.

On the 3d rotation thing.  Could be a gameplay feature? You could have vulnerable underbellies on some ships, so you have to time your shots.

Looking foward to the next iteration.

Alan

[teletubo]

Oh this is lovely, really like it. The pun on game title is pretty nice too

just curious, why is the applet self signed? looks like a game that can easily just rely on the pre-signed (with a proper certificate) LWJGL jars.

Hmmm well observed ! It's just that I used my default build-script which signs the jars in the process.

On the 3d rotation thing.  Could be a gameplay feature? You could have vulnerable underbellies on some ships, so you have to time your shots.

Yeah, I have something like that planned, I thought of something like a spinning asteroid belt which you can only go thru when they are perpendicular to your ship, and stuff like that.

And ok, ok, I'll make the screen bigger !