Hi there!

Here is my first entry to the 4K contest.... It's a remake of the old Pipe Dreams... Any suggestions and criticisms are welcome. It includes a micro sound effect (but if audio initialization fails it will proceed without using it), but I preferred to invest bytecodes in the game mechanics and visuals rather than in sound.

This is the first 4K program I wrote, ever, and I came upon quite a few surprises. I hope to improve with my next entries, which will be more action oriented :-)

Webstart  : http://www.ahristov.com/tubedreams/tubedreams.jnlp
Instructions : http://www.ahristov.com/tubedreams/

Screenshot:

Oopps.. Must have messed the JNLP file. Seems I wrote 1.5.0 instead of 1.5+. I'll fix it in a moment.

Thread.yield(), even

nice game, I'm not quite smart enough though (I faulter under time pressure )

It's still running at 50% on my machine WinXP.  Which means the thread is still running at full capacity given that my Pentium 4 has hyper-threading (dual hardware threads).

Maybe Thread.sleep(30); instead?

Cool game BTW.  My girlfriend suggested a pipedreams remake, but you already executed on it perfectly.