Abstract Glowy Vector Wars

[dapy]

Evenin’ all!

Here is my entry for this year’s contest:

http://www.java4k.com/screenshots/655425b07c620d0ec8d84728464168e7.png

http://www.java4k.com/index.php?action=games&method=view&gid=402

It started out being a Defender/Asteroids mashup, and ended up being… well, what you see here!

This is the first game I’ve actually managed to finish for about 20 years!
I really enjoyed coding this one, the 4K limit forces you to Just Write The Damned Game^TM, rather than getting bogged down in unimportant details.

Oh, I’ve included the source code, so people can laugh at my ineptitude ;D

[ra4king]

OH MY GOD GEOMETRY WARS IN 4K I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE!!
worships dapy

Great game! Played it for over 30 minutes!

EDIT: 1 suggestion, do turn on Anti-Aliasing, it would hurt my eyes a little bit less ;D

g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);

[dapy]

Thanks for your kind words, I’m glad you liked it!

I did start out with anti-aliasing, but it was just too slow with the number of sprites on screen.

What’s your best score? I’ve managed about 250,000, but I think I’ve tweaked the parameters since then…

[pelle]

Wow. Impressive. Too difficult for me, but I was never good at this kind of game.

[StephR]

A crossbreed between Omega Race and Geometry Wars ?

Really a very good shooter, with a great design, friendly controls and non stop action. Maybe a bit too hard ? But at least it is never boring.

My best score so far was 65 800. Be assured that your game will see me again to try to beat it.

[dapy]

Cheers for the great feedback - I wish I’d submitted it earlier so I could do something about that difficulty level! Ah well, there’s always next year

Anything over 60k is a good score, I can’t get anywhere near to 250k now.

[princec]

Nifty though for some reason my brain tells me the mouse buttons should be swapped.

Cas