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Java 4K Game Development Contest

Posted by Zonk on from the what-else-do-you-have-to-do dept.

mrseigen writes "Java Unlimited has been running a contest since Dec 1 to develop a game in Java using only four kilobytes of bytecode and resources. You have until March 1 to finish your entries, and it's worth looking at the entries for last years' contest."

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  1. Uh.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Well if you are going to have a 4k email signature, you might as well have it be an attached Java game, not some lame graphic.

    I sense productivity will reach all time highs ...

  2. Re:About what you would expect by jlarocco · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He does have a point. I have a version of tetris for my TI-86 calculator. I have no idea how to tell how much RAM it uses, but the calculator only has something like 120K. One 4K version of tetris on that page uses almost 40 MB of RAM after a few minutes, and after playing for a while there's occasional, noticeable pauses for garbage collection (yes, I verified it was from garbage collection), which doesn't happen on the calculator.

    Java's great for some tasks, it's almost like a cross-platform VB. But the language, or more likely the way the language is most commonly used, isn't optimal for some things. Games happen to be one of those things.

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    Maybe not
  3. No FAQ on .JNIP extension file by Dark+Coder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the uninitiated and clueless, there is no HOWTO or FAQ on how to run these Java program from Mozilla/Firefox or its mime action file.

    Just how does one go about getting JNIP file to execute from a 'single-click' standpoint of view?

    When one clicks on the website's 'Run Webstart', an open dialog box indicating that this JNIP file extension is identified as a 'Java Network Launched Application', but offers no executable for this...

    What is the correct executable for this?