Fly through space as a ship capable of turning into pure particles!
Smash through an enemy armada with 6 unique types!
Keep track of your score and try to aim for the top!
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It is interesting. The enemies don’t have enough firepower to ever kill me though. Also the game doesn’t show me the score when it is over.
Cool game, lots of potential.
- Enemy’s need to get harder.
- Graphics could obviously do with a bit of work
- More particles for explosions!
- More weapons
- Don’t let me hold charge in the gun forever, otherwise I just dodge until it’s full power.
- Work out what to do when the ships reach you, right now they just spin in a circle.
Kev
It’s looking good, but the hit boxes on the big ships are too small.
It’s got a good arcadey-feel. Nice work 
version 1.01 released. Changes:
-Enemies fire farther.
-Enemies get progressively harder.
-Any hit reduces charge meter to 0.
-Game Over screen shows score.
Please?
Wow, much better! Real challenge, I actually got myself worked up over losing!
Score didn’t show at the game over screen tho 
Great stuff!
Kev
Good job. Graphics are not bad. Gameplay is good. My only complaint is the shot does not come out of the centre of the ship. This makes it harder to aim. Was this intentional?
No score for me either.
It may take a bit long to play, and int he end you just end up doing rounds around them all the time until you die (which takes quite long if you can kill the guys that spawn in front of you quickly).
Verion 1.02 is out.
-Added 2 new weapons
-Changed Title Screen to reflect new controls
-Fixed Score on GameOver screen.
I’m at work so I have tested under Windows Vista. It is a very good game ;D Nice job. I will test it under my crappy computer under Linux tonight.
Thank you very much Was your vista 32 or 64 bit though?
link doesn’t work for me, seems as if the host is down.
Yeah, the host is down right now T_T
Vista 64 bits but with a 32 bits JVM
You can try out the current version here:
http://prime.programming-designs.com/java/drivebuster.jnlp
However, the server isn’t setup for .jnlp files yet, so you’ll need to save it and run it from desktop. 
Pretty cool. I enjoyed flying around and blasting stuff, however a few things could be improved:
- The game should feel more frantic, i.e. more enemies and more bullets (coming from my gun).
- The level should be much more expansive (scrolling).
- There should be a larger variety of gameplay.
- My gun should feel less sluggish and more impressive when charged (a bunch of tiny lasers as fast as I can click or a huge fuckoff blast fully charged).
- Particle effect should probably not appear automatically, although I’m not sure about this. Right now it gives you no reason to do it manually.
- Bump up the graphics. These kinds of games work from being very impressive with the explodeys - lots of particles, fire, laser beams, etc.
I think that you should have the asteriods effect. Like where you go off one side and you appear on the other side. I was basically just running around the screen shooting :P.
Host now works 100%. Enjoy.