J4K

[kevglass]

Woogley made a good suggestion to me while we were playing IsOlation. The rules should be that you can enter as many entries as you want but can only take one place (i.e. 3rd, 4th or 5th but not all 3)

That seems very fair to me.

Kev

[jbanes]

Look alive, people! It seems Javalobby just noticed us.

[wiesi]

so here's my entry: Tetris4K
http://www.woogley.net/j4k/Tetris4K/

features:
* "normal" Tetris
* fast drop stone
* drop stone
* shows next stone
* shows current score
* you can enter your name if you make the highscore
* the highscore is shown at the beginning
* the highscore is loaded from / saved to a file
* pause mode
* fullscreen and windowed mode (you can switch at the beginning and/or while the game (Alt+Enter))
* mega-cool graphics *g*
* < 4KB

WiESi

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[jbanes]

A snippet from the source:

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BufferedImage o, q;       Graphics r;       File a;       String e;       boolean u, d, g;       byte x, y, m = 1, s;       int w, b;       byte[] c, f = new byte[384];       byte[][] n

And this, my friends, is why God invented Obfuscators/Class Optimizers. Trying to manually figure out those names is mind-boggling.

Weisi: Any chance we could get a 1.4 compile? :-)

[William Denniss]

A snippet from the source:

[code]
And this, my friends, is why God invented Obfuscators/Class Optimizers. Trying to manually figure out those names is mind-boggling.

And comments :p    I found that using logical letters (e.g. 'l' for lives) and comments made it readable enough without the need for an obfuscator.

Will.

[mlk]

Why would you want to avoid using an obfuscator?

:-/

[dsellars]

Sorry this is probably a daft question (seeing as every one else has manged it ) but how do I go about posting an official version of Chopper4k for the competition?  I have a few small tweaks to do before I can call it an entry but it is mostly there.

Cheers,
Dan.

[kevglass]

Just post references to it here and on the JDC forum thread (see top of this thread for a reference).

Kev

[wiesi]

Weisi: Any chance we could get a 1.4 compile? :-)

Yes, I updated the jar.

WiESi

[wiesi]

So, I also made an applet version (needs at least Java 1.1, so if you have an IE without the new Java VM it should run too).

Folder: http://www.woogley.net/j4k/Tetris4K/appletVersion/
HTML: http://www.woogley.net/j4k/Tetris4K/appletVersion/Tetris.html

WiESi

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[Markus_Persson]

New entry:
http://www.mojang.com/j4k/hunters4k/

[kevglass]

Grid Runner X -

http://www.cokeandcode.com/games/4k/grx/grx.jnlp

http://www.cokeandcode.com/games/4k/grx/grx.jar

Main-Class:  G

Incidently, Markus, make a webstart.. as long as the standalone jar version remains under 4k does it really matter that the signed version shoots over the limit?

Kev

[Daniel_F]

Hi
I would like to submit my game:

http://www1.freeweb.hu/danieleff/territory4k.html

[c_lilian]

I was thinking about the java.util.jar.Pack200 class, which is part or the JRE.

It could be possible to create a ClassLoader class using Pack200 to load a class from the contents of the game jar :

Game Jar = Loader.class + data  (data = set of classes in Pack200 format)
Loader.Main : adds a class loader to the thread and starts the game
Loader.findClass() : implement classloading from JarEntries

This would allow us to store more classes in less space, without needing extra unpacking stuff on the server.

Has anyone already prospected in that direction ?

Lilian

[Morre]

Kartrisk4k:
http://www.x2d.org/java/4k/Kartrisk4k.jar
Webstart: http://www.x2d.org/java/4k/kartrisk.jnlp

Description:
S/D will move you 3 pixels, while Left/Right moves you 1.5 pixels. Points are granted each update (based on the speed value); tomatoes give you 100*speed bonus points. Press 1-9 to start, and escape to exit.

More info here: http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=Announcements;action=display;num=1108132588

[luisoft]

I want to submit my games too (there are only 2 there yet). If I could finish others until the deadline, you will find them in the same page:

http://luisoft.o-f.com/projects/games/main.html

Tks,

[c_lilian]

Please include my game in the contest.

http://www.woogley.net/j4k/bubbleracer4k/index.html

I will update it till end of feb, if i can get some more fps, or other features.

PentiumIV class processor requiered to enjoy the game.

Have fun.

Lilian

[mlk]

http://luisoft.o-f.com/projects/games/main.html

Tks,

You need a HTTP:// in that



c_lilian, unplayable slow, but very impressive.

[c_lilian]

BubbleRacer4k should be playable now on most computers at low resolution.

fps stats :
- LowRes / P III 800Mhz : 10
- MidRes / iMac G5 : 22
- MidRes / P IV -3.2Ghz : 55 fps

Lilian

[woogley]

Game list updated (now with 33 games!). I apologize for the late update, I had the flu this weekend so I obviously couldn't get around to it on time

[mlk]

Who wants to be a Judge? I've nominated jbanes on The Other Thread.
Blah^3 has been mentioned and accepted.
ChrisM has been nominated.
Naturally I'm up for it. (I'll either withdraw my entry, or not score it)

[jbanes]

 

Who wants to be a Judge? I've nominated jbanes on The Other Thread.

Umm... as much as I wouldn't mind doing it, I don't think making an entrant a judge is very fair. :-)

Blah^3 has been mentioned and accepted.

Just a side note on this, should we require that the judges do testing on Window's machines? Macs are quite slow (although my own game performs very well ;-)) and Linux boxes don't support full screen mode. I'm sure that Blah3h has a Windows box around somewhere, but I'm thinking we should just clarify this point. :-)

ChrisM has been nominated.

Agreed. How about it Chris? Do you mind being a judge?

Naturally I'm up for it. (I'll either withdraw my entry, or not score it)

That would be sad. A lot of people seem to get a real kick out of Stag Party 4K.

If we can rope him into it, another possible judge is Cas. He sort of bowed out of the competition. Orangy Tang and EgonOlsen (sp?) might also make good judges if they'd agree. Probably should just take the first three that agree. :-)

[ChrisM]

Would be happy to judge!

-ChrisM

[jbanes]

Would be happy to judge!

-ChrisM

Awesome! Thanks Chris, this really means a lot to us! :-)

Two down, one judge to go!

[blahblahblahh]

 
Just a side note on this, should we require that the judges do testing on Window's machines? Macs are quite slow (although my own game performs very well ;-)) and Linux boxes don't support full screen mode. I'm sure that Blah3h has a Windows box around somewhere, but I'm thinking we should just clarify this point. :-)

My laptop has linux and win, and I have an athlon with winxp when I'm at home too, so that's no problem.

But it feels horrible saying that everything will be tested on windows. What are we, VB programmers? . And, given that windows has the broken timer...

But anyway, since I'll have to install java 5, which I don't want to do to any of my linux boxes, yes I'll probably do most testing on windows anyway

[jojoh]

4 new contributions to the competition (and 3 old ones have moved to this area as well)

http://valhallawebdesign.com/Joakim/Java/4K/

[mlk]

Yeah, thanks Chris.

Just a side note on this, should we require that the judges do testing on Window's machines?

Yurk. I see where you going, and do mostly agree. Still, yurk.
How about one of the points being for XPness?  :-/

[Rick]

Here is my entry for the 4K contest. It is a asteroids like game. Check it out at http://woogley.net/j4k/trek

How do I get it to show up on the woogley.net/games page?  

Features:
Asteroid like game with thruster controlled trek like ship.
Translucent shields.
Tumbling shaded cratered asterroids.
UFOs at higher levels.
Particle explosions.
Score and bonus ships.

Hope you like it.  

[nonnus29]

Hope you like it.

Very nice!  The asteroid are cool.  The particles seem to remain deadly when their no longer visible; I was dieing and I didn't know why.

Only bad thing is you forgot the obligatory "-4k" when naming the game ie "Trek4k"  

[Rick]

Thanks, glad you liked the asteroids in trek 4k.
I have changed the name to trek4k as you suggested. Thank goodness I had 2 bytes to spare.  

I think I also fixed the bug you saw. When an asteroid is killed it is placed off screen. I placed it at -1 -1 this caused it to be not drawn. But it could still kill you if you ran into it up in the top left corner. I moved it farther offscreen to fix the problem.