A Tribute To Spy Hunter, Submitted To The 2006 Java 4K Gaming Competition
This was our entry into the 2006 Java 4K Gaming Competition.
Our plan was to create a tribute to the Spy Hunter arcade game.
The goal of the competation was to present a game, contained within a single jar file with size less than 4096 bytes, that could be played in the browser.
- Sprites
We only stored the left-half of the car and tree sprites in the jar. The code would mirror these to create a full sprite for rendering. We also reduced the amount of detail in the sprite to create longer runs of the same color for better compression.
- Drawing & Collision-Detection
We drew the pixels manually, and performed collision-detection during the drawing process.
- Post-Compilation Processing
We ran the class file through a set of tools to strip out unnecessary byte-code and further compress the results. The names of the tools elude me right now, but we may post more details later.
You can view the original submission page (and play the game) here:
http://www.javaunlimited.net/games/view.php?id=102