Boot up your IDE'S, the contest has started!!!

Contests 4K Game Competition - 2011
#1

(Ok, sorry for starting 1,5 hours earlier, going to bed early) :o

ANYWAY…

The Java4K 2011 contest has started!!!

It’s now possible to submit games into the contest on http://www.java4k.com

NEW! - Now possible to copy/paste sourcecode for your game!

Good luck to you all. :wink:

Any questions? Ask them!

#2

If you paste in source code does it make the JAR for you or is that just for sharing your source?

#3

I think I forgot my password. How do I get it back? ;D

#4

email me: appel (at) java4k.com

#5

Just for sharing source.

#6

Blimey! Just got back & there’s a zillion games in progress already! I’m glad I got GTA in last time! Hmmm - anyone for Fable4K?

EDIT: Hang on, they’re almost all by one author… Go Zeroone!

#7

Awesomemazing!

Let’s do this, folks.

#8

wow, looks like the best start ever to the java4k contest, can’t wait to see more games :slight_smile:

#9

I love the new theme, props to the designer. (Who was it?)

#10

Thanks :slight_smile:

I designed the site. There’s lot of work that still needs to be done about the content structure, but I’ll work on that later.

#11

Damn if zeroone is not off to a FLYING start! Has the right idea though, doing old time pixelly gfx is the way to go.

This is interesting: ran Rivens shrinker on the gradius4k source posted with the game:


a.java => 40022 bytes
a.class => 9083 bytes
a.normal.java6.jar => 5239 bytes
a.normal.java6.pack => 7702 bytes
a.progrd.java6.jar => 5104 bytes
a.progrd.java6.pack => 7596 bytes
db9616e30450a7ea9a010768bb4cabec.progrd.java6.bj.pack.gz => 4093 bytes  => test
db9616e30450a7ea9a010768bb4cabec.normal.java6.bj.pack.gz => 4120 bytes  => test
db9616e30450a7ea9a010768bb4cabec.progrd.java6.kz.pack.gz => 4137 bytes  => test
db9616e30450a7ea9a010768bb4cabec.normal.java6.kz.pack.gz => 4162 bytes  => test
db9616e30450a7ea9a010768bb4cabec.progrd.java6.7z.pack.gz => 4310 bytes  => test
db9616e30450a7ea9a010768bb4cabec.normal.java6.7z.pack.gz => 4398 bytes  => test

I figured ~9k of bytecode would get down to 4k, but above the normal jar is way smaller than the pack200 jar, that’s a surprise (to me at least…).

#12

I would like to nominate this thread as “sticky”. Being a Newbie, it took me a while to find out where the rules are posted and how to submit a game. Neither of the other two “sticky” threads for the 4K Game Competition have a clear reference to www.java4k.com like this one does, right at the top.