jPlane - Finished! Try it out! 05/03/2012

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#1

This is a small clone of the game ‘Copter’ in Java, using the Swing and AWT libraries. I made this in five hours over the weekend and I’m quite impressed with it. Enjoy! Since that time the game has been played by over a hundred people, featured in a YouTube video (hosted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQyUqWgcQ-g) and its threads viewed by many more, leading me to attempt at improving the game. Read the ‘more info’ section for a detailed list of new features!

Screenshots

Above: The menu, 'nuff said.

Above: The smaller craft and the new coin system.

More Info

  • Standalone .jar file
  • Avoid the walls, collect coins and try to get a good score!
  • Endless game-play, with randomized maps to play on
  • Space controls the player, Enter starts a game
  • Only 5.67KB!
  • Improved wall generation, and a far reduced chance of WOD’s
  • Craft is smaller and more nimble!
  • Easter Egg Mode for those who like crashing!
  • Current Hi-Score has yet to be made!
  • Added Emeralds (blue squares, which give 69 coins)
  • Added a fancy title screen

Download
Just double click the .jar file to run!

FULL VERSION -v9001.02
http://www.mediafire.com/?nixni2s72n7ic21
NEW - v9001.02
http://www.mediafire.com/?a3nkj958417afzu
OLD - v9001.01
http://www.mediafire.com/?5iokdv7xzou27xj

#2

Oh the nostalgia :’)

Quite fun, but the level design starts off a bit too hard. I couldn’t get a score bigger than 1000 :confused:

#3

Haha, 200? The level design is entirely randomized, it depends on how it was generated. I managed 2500 after some practice. I’ll probably make the level generator more spaced out when I get the chance, I was just impressed it worked so well.

#4

Oops typo, I meant 1000 :stuck_out_tongue:

I just replayed it a couple times: 2694 w00t

#5

Damnit! I always hit the wall of death (the two bars at equal X values) before 2500 :smiley:

#6

2289 Very nice game.

#7

Sometimes it generates impossible walls… please fix this.

#8

The walls are not impossible, you have just not found a good way around them.

#9

lol no, sometimes they are impossible

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5463/78551463.gif

you have to put waaay more checks in

#10

Even though it isn’t perfect (some very tough spots), amazing for 5 hours work ;D

-Nathan

#11

Genius! Instead of acknowledging near impossible areas, just blame the player’s incompetency :stuck_out_tongue:

#12

I’ve fixed those bugs now, check the OP!