Coming soon…
I’m really sorry as people will loose their time reading this useless message, but my wish was to post some pictures of my game, and I failed at using the “img” tags… I will try to fix this in a way or in other this evening.
Is that the game from Tron?
you can just upload a picture. just go to additional options.
Yes, Zeroone, my project is an attempt to remake Flynn’s arcade game in 2D and 4 Ko. You know your classics !
And thank you for your suggestion, h3ckboy, however I’m too tired this evening to try to understand how to add pictures to my posts here… I find simplier to let you a link to the game demo !
http://stephr.110mb.com/
It is really far from being complete, and I’m afraid it will take a lot of compression and optimization to get this game to the state I wish. Here is my to-do list :
- compress most of the graphics ;
- implement level progression ;
- improve enemy IA ;
- add explosions.
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I can’t seem to launch the game. Anyone else have better luck?
Hi,
great game so far. Runs very smooth on my MBP with java 1.5. Here is some feedback for you.
- nice retro graphics, reminds me of the Tron movie
- movement feels right, a big heavy tank
- it’s too hard, one hit and you are dead
- maybe implement some kind of life / armor
- controls are not user friendly imho, maybe control tank with Arrow-Keys, turret with A and D (wasd ftw) and shot with Space
- a minimap / radar would be cool
Keep up the good work. I want to try the next version ;D
*** Zeroone, actually I experimented some problems with the hosting server… But in your case, where was the problem exactly ? Did you see at least the texts surrounding the applet, or you just fail to download the internet page ? Anyway thanks for reporting this problem…
***TheMatrix154, thanks for all your feedback on my game ! Alas I must warn you that I still have very few octets left to finish it, so don’t expect great changes upon its final release… I’m currently processing a lot of in-code compression and optimization, but I’m not sure it will be very successfull. And now to answer your comments :
- concerning the graphics, Tron was indeed the source of my inspiration ;
- the level of difficulty set in the current demo ( v0.34 ) is not the definitive one, and will belong to the highest levels of the final version. Tuning it is one of my remaining tasks ;
- nothing is planned to implement some life bar or armor - it will be some “one shot, one kill” ;
- controls could indeed be improved… However I’m using an AZERTY keyboard, so I’m still looking for some user friendly controls on both AZERTY and QWERTY keyboards ;
- implementing a radar would be a great, however will I have enough octets to put it in my code ?
The next interesting demo should be online this coming week-end only, as I repeat it, I’m busy working at compressing and optimizing the existent code.
For me, the page loads, but there is a red X where the applet should be. A popup displays:
Several Java Virtual Machines running in the same process caused an error
I don’t usually have problems running Java applets/applications. Can you provide a JNLP instead?
I got it running now. Cool graphics. Very Tron-like.
But, it’s difficult to play. The other tanks seem to be able to kill me too easily.
Fortunately you made it run, Zeroone ! Otherwise I would have been obliged to try to make this JNLP file. I’m still a novice programmer in Java, and for now I only know how to make an executable jar with a manifest inside…
And thanks for your appreciation. The enemy tanks kill me very easily too - they will definitely need to be nerfed into the final version !
I watched the segment of Tron (via youtube) to verify that this is indeed Space Paranoids or at least a 2D version of it. I doubt that there was real hardware at the time the movie was made that could render that 3D version.
Please help ! I’ve got some problems for creating the jnlp file of my entry !
The link to my jnlp file is at the bottom of my internet page :
http://stephr.110mb.com/
And the jnlp file itself is here:
http://stephr.110mb.com/SpaceParanoids2D4K.jnlp
Here is the error message I get when I click on it :
“404 Error - You’ve reach a page that does not exist on 110mb hosting. Please go back.”
And now here is the complete code of my jnlp file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://stephr.110mb.com" href="http://stephr.110mb.com/SpaceParanoids2D4K.jnlp"> <information> <title>Space Paranoids 2D4K</title> <vendor>StephR</vendor> <homepage href="http://stephr.110mb.com/index.htm"/> <description kind="short">Space Paranoids 2D4K</description> <offline-allowed/> </information> <security> </security> <resources> <j2se version="1.5+"/> <jar href="http://stephr.110mb.com/S.jar"/> </resources> <applet-desc documentBase="http://stephr.110mb.com/" name="S" main-class="S" width="500" height="500"> </applet-desc> </jnlp>
you jnlp works…
This is crazy, the jnlp can’t start on my computer… I have also added to my page a link to another jnlp I found in a tutorial, and this one works ! I tried to replace the tutorial jar by my game, and then I got another error…
I just click on the jnlp and it loads the game and runs it.
It works for me.
If you’ve recently upgraded to Java 1.6 update 12, it may be related:
Actually it seems that the java web start version with the jnlp file doesn’t run on my computer which has Java RE 1.6 Update 11 on it… Anyway thank you for your help, h3ckboy and Hsaka.
The final version of my game is online on my website :
http://stephr.110mb.com/
Now the difficulty is much less harder on easy and medium modes, and the agressivity and speed of your enemies increase slightly at each new wave.
As recommanded by Morre here http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=19997.0, you can find as an attached file to this post the jar of the final version of my game.
And later this evening I will post its source code on my website http://stephr.110mb.com/. I don’t do it right now because it needs a lot of cleaning !
it says it is currupt for me