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Far From Earth

By ramikaze

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio1343.18
Overall4492.83
Fun4712.61
Innovation5042.56
Mood5852.20
Humor5861.42
Graphics6282.22
Theme7061.78
Coolness74239

Comments

zak 2012-08-27 02:36

Difficult learning curb. I like this style of game though

freegor 2012-08-27 02:54

Has some potential. Cool music. Not very on-theme.

minism 2012-08-27 03:10

Couldnt run on OSX 10.7 Lion with 'java -jar FarFromEarth.jar'

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/ramikaze/farfromearth/FarFromEarth : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

ramikaze 2012-08-27 03:12

For "major.minor version 51.0" error you must to install Java 1.7.

mokesmoe 2012-08-27 03:13

Got to around wave 100 and it lagged so much from all the bullets it became unplayable.

yngar 2012-08-27 03:15

Got up to wave 100 and thousands of objects on screen. I know I could have wiped the screen but that seemed like a waste of good archers, I had the robots and stuff but the archers were still running around. Pretty fun game, good job!

mamick 2012-08-27 03:21

A bit easy, but a very fun game. I got a null pointer exception at entity.Warrior.update<Warrior.java:60> though. Also lagged a bit.

loggiant 2012-08-27 05:31

I thought this was pretty great. About halfway through round 1 I finally understood the controls, and after that it wasn't too hard. When I realized I can just spam warriors and get a ton of gold I started to fight 3 - 4 waves at a time. Right now I am waiting for waves 89 - 108 to die from my military so the game quits lagging so much. Besides the easiness, this game is a lot of fun. I would buy it if it was a complete game!

kidanger 2012-08-27 11:21

Very nice, but in the end (wave 100+) it starts being slow (too many turrets ?). We can have a lot of gold very quickly, but converting it into iron is a bit boring.
This game is fun to play, anyway. :)

fredericrp 2012-08-27 14:57

FIY : Chrome + Mac = no Java 7 :(
(Chrome is a 32 bits only browser), for anyone that uses Chrome instead of Safari or Firefox, you've got to install Java 7 and never use Java in Chrome again.

kobel 2012-08-28 14:51

Fun little tower defense kind of thing. First time I played I ended up making like 300 archers, which seemed super effective but slowed the game to a crawl. After that I tried making military units and snipers which seemed a lot less effective. Balance might not be great.

tau7153 2012-08-29 10:25

Very nice music and fun once I realised what to do! But only made it to wave 107. :)

enimal 2012-08-29 10:34

A very fun game, with nice music, that was cool :)

cthulhu 2012-08-31 21:56

Can you rename windows in JAR? I think it would be better.

kayelgee 2012-09-01 00:24

I like the concept

eatthepath 2012-09-01 00:26

Quite neat, once you figure out the controls. Around wave 75 I had enough guys and monsters and bullets everywhere that lag started becoming an issue though. Monsters also stopped being a real threat... By wave 100 I had to stop because it ran so slow.

Would also be nicer if the archer's shots were more visible.

eatthepath 2012-09-01 00:26

Quite neat, once you figure out the controls. Around wave 75 I had enough guys and monsters and bullets everywhere that lag started becoming an issue though. Monsters also stopped being a real threat... By wave 100 I had to stop because it ran so slow.

Would also be nicer if the archer's shots were more visible. Nice music though.

josh-dreamland 2012-09-07 17:10

Could you build this with Java 6? My OS doesn't offer Java 7, or vice-versa.

ramikaze 2012-09-07 17:54

Yes I can but the JRE must be JRE7, is it ok ?