I like it, love the graphics. Needs much more sound and the existing sounds could be louder. I would have played it a lot but I'm at work. The message text needs to be a bit bigger as well, I found it difficult to read.

It was fun.  I liked it.  I got to the second stage on my first time.

I did find it frustrating that if you die when trying to get to the exit that you have to get all the stars again.  

Those robots were mean.  You might want to try making the collision detection a little more favorable for the player just so you have a chance to escape the robots.  

Sometimes the enemies went through the closed doors.  Is that suppose to happen?

Oh, and like everyone else said, the graphics were really nice.

- Brian

Just brilliant.
Could do with a) running fullscreen as a proper application and b) being a little easier!

Cas

I spent far too much time trying to get past level 3.  It's nice.

The collision detection could be cleaned up a bit, and the animation could be a bit smoother.. all that sort o polish.. but the game play is good, a great concept.

(Works great on the Mac.)

As for applets. I am working on something that will be deployed as webstart application. But the reasons for deploying as an applet are:

1) Advertisement. This is currently an experiment of mine but there is definitely a potential here. A game like this takes about one week to develop and a has a lifecycle at about 3 years, even though advertisement just generates pennies, the long running period might just be enough for this type of game development to make sense business wise.

2) Audience. This runs perfectly with MS Java 1.1, requiring webstart would limit the audience - in my estimate by around 50% (I can find the exact number by looking at my server log).

3) "Psychology". Because the game is embedded in a webpage then playing it becomes just like browsing the web, it is "easier" to play at school or at work (it does not give you bad conscience like firing up Max Payne does).

I decided to play though guy wrt. level design this time. But to show my good heart I have easen up level 3 and the evil level 5.

Thanks for the great feedback.

Sound is working great on the Mac.