penk | Planet Geek!: Teeny wonderful games

I recently got pointed at an ongoing contest on Java Unlimited whereby folks are encouraged to write a game that compiles into less than 4k. The size is calculated based on the JAR file resulting from the build, and must include all graphics, sounds, and logic.

I recommend folks looking for some light entertainment go over and look through the various contest results (hint: sort the entrants by 'DL' (downloads), and look for the ones that have been downloaded the most - that usually indicates a good game).

The one that has me totally hooked is Miners4k (home page here). The feel of the game is similar to Lemmings and definitely has the "I'll keep clicking for the next half hour and watch little guys moving" feel to it.

Other ones I recommend:
Pipe Extreme - Fly the pipe!
Cubis - A simple Cubis implementation
fuzetsu - Hard to explain, just try it.

As always, all these games run via webstart, so will work under windows, mac, and linux.

Enjoy!

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Category: Linux or Mac Webgames
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