ESCAPE: First Person shooter in Java

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#1

Hi @all,

I’m proud to present the game ESCAPE a first person shooter developed in Java!!! ;D
The game is open source and free. Get more information at the homepage or download it directly.

Please checkout the game an send me your comments.

You’re are also welcome to join the development team, we need:

  • designer (level)
  • artists (3D modeler, texture, painter, sound and music)
  • tester (beta tester)

ciao torsten

#2

downloaded the game.
Could not understand anything of what i had to do.
Controls are horrific. can’t strafe and run, mouse used only to see left and right… well. this is doom, nothing more.
Sorry to be that negative, but as a quake addict i can’t do support anything with those damn controls. ( i know… get a brain… :slight_smile: )
Anyway, good luck with your game.

#3

Hi, there, just downloaded it too.

I have to agree the controls make absolutely no sense, you move with keys in your right hand, and strafe with keys on the left hand and shoot with the mouse wichi is controlled by…a tail? I need to grow a tail to play this game? Dammit!

Allow keyboard mappings and you’ll improve it greatly.

-Chris

#4

Please distribute this via Java Web Start (or even just a jar) so I can run it in Linux.

Thanks.

#5

Well the controls are weird but the game is pretty cool.

#6

At least it is quite smooth, although hard to judge bc. there is no real possibility to move.

Yes, FPS controls have to use Quake-controls. Thats is enforced by international law.

Don’t know how to use that sword. If I hit, the dungeon strangely flickers around, but not way to cause any damage to the (really nice) knight.

Somehow, although much older, Q3A plays better and is more fun… :slight_smile:

#7

Hi @all,

thx for your fair comments.

Yes, you’re right the control sucks, you need three hands or an additional tail to use them. I will fix this.

I will make an jar file for non windows users.

ciao torsten

#8

I walked into darkness and died, then the game strangely crashed. The second time I played, I picked up this thing that looked like a shotgun, but I couldn’t activate it at all and then this 2 headed monster that had 4 arms and huge graphical glitch came and ass raped me.

Otherwise nice.

#9

I am just downloading the game…
How can I become a beta tester ?

#10

I am having trouble running the game…

Environment: Matrox G400, JRE 1.4.1_01, 700 Mhz Athlon, 384 MB RAM.

Problem: After clicking the “Escape” icon the screen turns black. The mouse cursor is there, but that’s it.

Too bad. I would really like to see the game.

#11

Hi,

have you installed the latest driver for the Matrox G400?

ciao torsten

#12

BTW gl4java is broke with some new drivers :-[

#13

Well, now I have :slight_smile:

Still got the same problem, though.

Everything else works properly: LWJGL, Java3D, games, etc. so I can hardly believe its the driver…

#14

Hmm, that might be it. A few days ago I tried to install GL4Java and, even though the installation went ok, GL4Java didn’t work.

So the conclusion seems to be: GL4Java doesn’t work on Matrox G400 (at least with the driver I am (and was) using).

#15

you should try to compile a CVS version of gl4java

I got huge probs of that kind with gl4java, and finaly uninstalled it and ported my code to lwjgl :smiley: