Ok I ahve something similar. every level the player gets 1 shield point. but they only work wiht bullets. when a ship crashes into you you die no mattter what. it is kinda realistic. I will try to give the person 3 shield points to start out with.
ok now you start out with 3 shield points. and it also blocks ships. and you gain 1 every level.
it also says how many shield points you have in the bottom left corner.
I also fixed the lvvl 3 glitch thing. It had somehow undone the change I made ??
tahnks for allt he great input
The JNLP file works fine but I still get a NullPointerException when I choose “No” in the window entitled “Retry”.
hmm. where does the exception appear. in cmd? cause i do not get any errors cause I directly run the program.
When I use Java Webstart, I enable an option to show the Java console and then I see the same NullPointerException than I showed you yesterday. It is quite easy to fix.
coudl you tell em how?? cause I never bothered to figure it out. does the game run for you though?
Doesn’t work.
Ahhh just looked at the jnlp. Make it work on 1.5! 
Mac OSX 10.5.6, Java 1.5, 2Ghz Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Duo is a x86-64 processor, then you can install the software update 1 or 2 that contains Java 1.6 instead of asking the author to change its Java version.
It is here:
[quote]Exception in thread “AWT-EventQueue-0” java.lang.NullPointerException
at dodge.keyPressed(dodge.java:160)
[/quote]
Your source code is not available, I cannot fix this bug for you. It doesn’t prevent me from playing with your game though.
there it is set to 1.5+ now.
enjoy
ok so I am trying to make a menu at the beginning to make it look more professional. I have tried but I am failing miserably. could someone tell me how go about this. also I am considering renamaing this game “Final Stand” because this really is a lot different than space invaders so please give me your input.
Change the name to what ever makes you happy 
How much java programming have you done? Have you heard of Swing? AWT?. Try and find some tutorials. I assume you only need 2 buttons(start and exit). Once you have some idea what you want come back and ask more specific questions.
Also, it probably would be best if you moved questions like this to a suitable part of the forum.
EDIT: Also make the white parts of your sprites transparent.
umm yes I do know how to program awt and swing. when I use it though it glithes. I have made a window it just freezes because when I call game() it never returns so it freezes.
other news:
Í fixed the problem witht eh name. it now displays the name and tells oyu to press any button to continue. no more grey screen!
new stuff:
there are now item drops. only item so far is shield points.
all thoughts are welcomed
I hate to write in a dead topic. so please tell me if oyu still read this cause then i will keep posting but I will stop if now one reads it anymore.
new stuff:
main menu.
thats all
This is great for a first game. Unlike most first-time games it’s actually quite fun and intense, rather than just being a boring tech demo.
Stage 3 seemed to go on for quite a while, are there any more stages?
I know it’s been said already, but you should make your sprite backgrounds transparent. If you use inkscape (www.inkscape.org) to make your sprites it’s easy - you just go file then ‘export’ and it saves it as a png file with a transparent background.
Then you can make your background image more interesting instead of being just white.
nice job!
THANK YOU!!! I have been trying ot figure this out FOREVER!!
btw thanks for the good coments. it is not really my first game as I said. waht I sayed was it was my first ok game. my other is on my website. kit is just a simple game where you avoid the asteroids. I made it and I dont play it anymore. cuase it is really boring.
I am going ot try out the inkscape thing
Hmmm, is this different than the traditional space shooter game? I don’t see the point with space invaders. Is there more variety in the later levels. I think one game design issue is that it doesn’t convince the player to keep playing.
dont oyu have the drive to jsut get higher than you ever have before. cause that is the deive on a lot of games. there are new monsters that come. I only ahve made 3 :/. If i have time I might try to make an online highscore.
yeah, good point
But, to me I wasn’t really having fun because it was only “deja vu”. Sorry.
SOMEONE ELSE HAS DONE THIS?? crying in corner or is it cause of name? I is called final stand now.