I have often found it unfair and strange that there is no place where java game developers simply can display their applets and also have a chance to earn some money. There are plenty of portals for Flash games but none for java.
Instead of just feeling sad for myself, I decided to create a site where casual gamers easily should be able to enjoy java games (with the added quality and depth that it gives compared to flash games, as we all know 
). At the same time it should be a site that finally is really friendly to java applet game developers.
So gamers can enjoy great games, and also enjoy community features if they want, such as compete for highscores, rate and give feedback on games chat and so on.
The plan is that devs can submit games without having to sell their sole, but at the same time be able to profit if the game is popular. This is done through profit sharing on ad income. On top of that it is very easy to get the added benefit of easily adding online highscores to the games, and get gamer feedback and general stats about usage. As we saw in the 4k compo it really makes a game more fun!
By having one portal we hope to generate more traffic to each game than what it would get if they are all hosted on different sites. (You can still have your games on your own or other sites, this would just be another great way to reach out to gamers and get feedback).
There has been a lot of debate about how good applets are for gaming in this forum, but one thing is pretty clear, and that is that it has never been as good of a time to use applets for gaming as now, so come on and send in all your great applet games and we can show that JAVA is THE WAY to do gamin on the net.
Note that the site is in open beta and the todo-list is 3.14 miles long :P, but the site should generally be working, even though slow connections, outages, lost data and falling rocks could happen. I hope to transition from beta into full version without a reset, it all depends on what changes needs to be done, just so you know.
Well, head on over, sign up, surf around and let me know what you think. Submit your games. There is an incubator section where games live that are playable, but devs like to get feedback on game tuning and so on, before maturing to a ready game, so games doesnât have to be 100% ready either. Most importantly, if you have any hesitation about sending in your games, let us know! We are trying to make this site the site that we as a indie game dev been longing for, but if you wont join, it wonât be a great site.
Send in your games! Nothing to lose and lots to gain! 8)
Reading it over, it looked a bit long and glossy, but too tired to fix it now, and I probably still forgot something that I meant to say⌠Feeling a bit worn out, so let me down easy if you think this is a waste of time, and do come with suggestions on what to change/improve and what to do next. I dropped the 4K compo this year (and lots of other things) to do this instead, so I do hope you like it 
When I left the project, I was a bit bitter but I think he has succeeded in creating a nicer and prettier portal with about 160 Java games, it is not nothing