I felt a bit nostalgic and played my first Java game ever. Now I want you all to enjoy it too 
It is called Wires and is a mass-spring system game which later evolved into SpringWorld Challenge.
Edit: The game is barely playable. I remember that I was sooo proud over it and it was sooo fun. Now I just get annoyed…
Here is also a video about its “evolution”:
Enjoy!
really excellent I like it (you should consider an Applet version)
I think I will do just that!
Edit: However, I have lost the source and need a good decompiler. Any suggestions?
oh nice, must say it does look good.
Last I tried Jad was a decent decompiler for single classes, no idea if it still works with recent Java releases.
This one is pretty good: http://java.decompiler.free.fr/
It lets you save the sources of a .jar as a .zip archive.
I tried that first. Some of the code it generated had errors but most of it turned out well I think.
This is the best free one I have tested and I will probably use it for this task.
Although the website is horrible, and the UI in the app is horrible, the resulting code is really good:
http://members.fortunecity.com/neshkov/dj.html
I use to use DJ Java Decompiler, never try to get back a project but it always have done the job for me
I used that JD decompiler and it worked after fixing 100 errors or something. Most of them were missing local variable declarations (i=0; instead of int i=0;).
Now when it runs I only need to make an applet out of it and figure out what to do with the highscores. Also: I have to fix that horrible engine sound that somehow got broken over the years
I thought that it was going to be more fun. The game is so annoying and unforgiving
Awesome, haven’t played a game like this. I love when stuff gets destroyed
I find it really funny when you just a small side rocket flying around haha.
Put some enemies, guns and that will really make it fun.
That is (sort of) what I did with this. It is simply an editor for vehicles and levels that are almost usable. You can even share your vehicles and levels online with that.
yeppe
Yet another: http://java.decompiler.free.fr/.
(edit: Which also has an eclipse plugin, which I’ve never tried)
I saw this on Youtube the other day, when I was stalking checking out your videos 
The game is really good, and I would LOVE if we could experiment on our own 
Do you mean an editor for Wires or SpringWorld Challenge? The Wires editor is gone 
The SpringWorld editor is available here. It will probably be appletified as well in some form. After finishing the SharpEar Challenge game I will continue with the combat game that I have a small preview of here. It will look a lot different but will be about space combat for sure.