I'm New Here and I Have a Game For Amusement Only

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#1

Hello. I have programmed a free game that I call For Amusement Only. I hope I can advertise it here. It’s programmed completely in Java, but in Full Screen Exclusive mode 2D, so my guess is that it’s Windows 7 only. I don’t think it will work on a Mac, but I want to make a mac version in the future. You run around and pick out coins so it’s kindof a platformer and then you put them into a fruit/slot machine. I posted the fruit machine part at a fruit emulation forum once and they said that the fruits scrolled smoothly and nice. Please tell me what you think if you want to try it. The rar file contains the jar, a windows exe that starts the jar and all libraries and also the sun JVM and it does NOT get in conflict with your standard JVM, it just runs separately.

http://lq7q7g.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pNElXCWNhBpXTCF1IbhXl-LdNxY-H9bAwp5GsDuWQi2kDRIOtHIWGw9A4KB783YmPR0kJhKRovuCeGtfzEq9RR4pWShZ5eXGa/screenshot1.jpg

http://lq7q7g.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pS12rc3gMGGhrG7dK-M_qjqy8uWUBU5VwV2FaZCZwIB21LPzgvgYsWplAZMltxdIxFud4UIobRSyQq2lEs9KywHOHIO1hDIpk/screenshot2.jpg

http://cid-2811a54bf2814138.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Offentlig/foramusementonly.rar

#2

Welcome to the forum.

You’ll have to hope for very trusting souls to run such a link. If you can convert it to an applet etc which can be run without risk then you’ll get much more feedback.

Mike

#3

Webstart!

Cas :slight_smile:

#4

Thanks for your responses princec and mike_bike_kite. The game does not run within the browser, it uses DirectX, openGL or whatever the java machine is using, my guess is that it’s DirectX, it was DirectX in the version I programmed it for anyway, so an applet is out of the question if I don’t reprogram everything. Java webstart is not possible for my game either since it loads gif images on the fly, the way C++ DirectX games usually are programmed since it’s a lot easier than using resources. This is incompatible with Java Webstart (and an applet as well). The game also stores higscores and stuff so if I should fix it so it works as applet or with webstart it would be a lot to do, everything would have to be reprogrammed.

However, on the downside, a java webstart application is installed and “messes” with the registry on the computer on Windows if I’m not completely wrong, so I prefer applets instead of webstart applications for that reason. And that’s also the why I have no installer. I have downloaded small .exe games that run directly, no installer and then when I’m tired I delete and that’s what I wanted to do, but in java, but I should have had more security issues in mind of course. Next time I’ll try java Webstart.