Java4K 2008 Competition
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The games in the Java4K 2008 Competition
Total 21 games.
| Screenshot | Title | Author | DL's | Submitted | Description | |
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4k - Balance | Luis Javier López Arredondo | 3010 | Feb 29, 2008 | Control the inclination of the platform to move the ball to the red square. Try each map with and without borders, and the inverted path. Check its 7 maps at this version. To make it a bit easier, a red segment center in the ball indicates the... | Play Now! Details! |
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Arcade Air Traffic Controller | Mark Bernard | 1863 | Dec 3, 2007 | You are an air traffic controller. Bring the planes in safely. | Play Now! Details! |
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Ascent | gareth | 1595 | Jan 16, 2008 | Blast the ground away with your cannon! | Play Now! Details! |
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Faeries catch | Bonbon-Chan | 1270 | Dec 27, 2007 | Catch the faeries with your bubble while avoiding the falling stars. Each time a faery is catched, your bubble grow in size. | Play Now! Details! |
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FkConflict | Blaine Hodge | 20230 | Feb 25, 2008 | A game of global conquest. Move your armies around the world to achieve global domination. | Play Now! Details! |
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Life as War | Erik Hooijmeijer | 2100 | Feb 12, 2008 | Ever wondered what Conway's Game of Life would be if two tribes of cells would fight for dominance ? Well now is your chance. Devise cunning groups of cells that quickly expand so that you can claim the blue area. Unfortunately your opponent tries the... | Play Now! Details! |
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Mini Golf | Tim Foden | 2310 | Dec 5, 2007 | 3D 9 Hole Mini Golf. 3 courses available. I'm sure you all get the idea. :) | Play Now! Details! |
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PAC-RAT | Glen Carter | 2383 | Dec 3, 2007 | Guide the pac-rat through a maze, collecting bugs for its lair. When all the bugs are collected, the pac-rat is taken to the next stage. Five cats prowl the maze, trying to catch the pac-rat. If a cat touches the pac-rat, a life is lost. When all lives... | Play Now! Details! |
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Pinball 4K | Tom-Robert Bryntesen | 1646 | Dec 3, 2007 | Pinball Game with lots of features and bonus plays | Play Now! Details! |
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Scala Pong 4K | Tom Palmer | 1263 | Jan 17, 2008 | A simple pong game, but on limited time. The key point here was that it was done in Scala rather than Java, just to see if it could be done. ProGuard definitely helped. (Since I don't use more than side effects from the Scala library, almost all was... | Play Now! Details! |
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Sharp Shooter | Mark Bernard | 1706 | Feb 19, 2008 | How good are your sharp shooting skills? Try to hit as many targets as you can in a camaflage background. | Play Now! Details! |
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Sling | Tomas Alaeus | 2767 | Feb 29, 2008 | "Sling!" And there was a Sling! | Play Now! Details! |
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Spiderball4k | MÃ¥ns Olson | 4300 | Jan 1, 2008 | Spiderball4k is a puzzle/action game. Use the two elastic ropes to guide the ball to the end of the level! | Play Now! Details! |
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Spingle | MÃ¥ns Olson | 1476 | Dec 3, 2007 | Spingle is a jumping game, where the goal is to collect coins and get as high as you can. In the aftermath of the Icejump Challenge, you, the infamous yellow dart (that looks nothing like a dart, or anything approximating one), are faced with... | Play Now! Details! |
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Switchboard | Simon | 1620 | Dec 7, 2007 | Discover the perils of a busy telephone switchboard! | Play Now! Details! |
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t4kns | Markus Persson | 2432 | Dec 14, 2007 | Build tanks, explore the map, harvest gems and try to destroy the enemy before he destroys you. If you've played Dune 2, you'll feel right at home with t4kns. | Play Now! Details! |
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TAtome | Bonbon-Chan | 975 | Dec 27, 2007 | A cross game between Pipe and Tetris. Score points by making full molecule : each red dot of an atome must be connected with another. | Play Now! Details! |
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The Puppet Master | Morne Alberts | 1424 | Dec 3, 2007 | Take control of the puppet and become The Puppet Master. | Play Now! Details! |
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Thief4k | Ulf Ochsenfahrt | 1753 | Feb 21, 2008 | The national art gallery displays a wonderfully valuable ruby in each of the next five weeks. Your dealer has called and made an offer you can't resist. Getting the keys, the blueprints of the gallery, and the guard's timetables was the easy part. Now... | Play Now! Details! |
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war4k | Michael Bliem | 1632 | Jan 18, 2008 | 4k fantasy shooter | Play Now! Details! |
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Z4rch | Simon | 2002 | Jan 17, 2008 | Oh no! Those pesky aliens are invading the planet - again. Prevent them from polluting the environment by blowing them all to kingdom come! | Play Now! Details! |




















