Civ/The Wager-inspired game in only 4 kilobytes!

[sixtyten]

Hey everyone,

4King & Country is a game I made for the Java 4K programming competition that allows you to explore and colonize an infinite world in only 4 kilobytes (thanks to the magic of Perlin noise)! You are an explorer trying to make a fortune and gain the favour of the King. You have 100 years to show that you deserve to live out the rest of your days as a lord of the realm and not a serf!

Play it here:

http://www.java4k.com/index.php?action=games&method=view&gid=471

The game was inspired by Colonization, which I spent many long and happy hours playing all those years ago . It is also inspired by a great entry to the Ludum Dare game competition called The Wager (http://www.surprisedman.co.uk/the-wager/).

Also check out the other excellent entries to the Java 4K competition - there are 68 to choose from!

 

[Quintillus]

I seem to be having issues with that website - and not just your game, but others as well. If I try to load a game in Opera 12, it freezes, and I have to kill Opera's plugin wrapper to restore responsiveness, which causes the applet to crash. If I go to the site in IE8, the tab crashes, and IE is unable to restore it. If I go to the site in Firefox 17 ESR, the Java plugin isn't active, but it doesn't crash. I have Java SE 6 U29 running in Opera, and I'd assume the same in IE. I think I read that Java 1.5 is all that's required?

Is there a downloadable desktop version? I run Java programs on the desktop all the time, so I know that'd work. I tried a quick conversion, but ran into a NPE on this line:

// Draw the entire results on the screen.
appletGraphics.drawImage(screen, 0, 0, null);

Probably because it expects to be an applet .