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Screen Takeover

By mikethewayne

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme784.19
Innovation3213.46
Humor5202.53
Fun8862.72
Graphics9272.52
Overall9582.78
Mood10981.94
Coolness174239

Comments

wandersenus 2014-12-07 23:25

very simplistic and suitable for the theme!

officialcodenmore 2014-12-10 23:02

I love the take on the theme! Great idea!

el-pepi 2014-12-10 23:15

Fits the theme very well. Quite simple game.

technomancer 2014-12-10 23:32

Nice use of the theme ;) Very simple but fun game.

becker929 2014-12-10 23:36

Great take on the theme and good idea! It was really slow at the beginning so I couldn't get up to the higher-level stuff. Then I wasn't sure why I died when I ran the anti-virus scrambler?

Still it was fun to watch my data points go up and the CPU usage too. Good job!

newt_ 2014-12-10 23:42

Nice use of the theme! Liked the concept, too! It was a bit slow, though. Good job overall!

rjhunter 2014-12-11 00:04

Great music! A pity that some people haven't been able to hear it.

Here's how you can fix it.

The problem is that the File("src/ScreenOSMusic.wav") specifically looks for a real file on disk (in a real folder called "src"), not a resource that might be in a jar.

Two ways of solving this:

* Keep the code as-is, and supply the WAV (in a folder called "src") alongside the JAR instead of inside it.

* Keep the WAV in the JAR, and swap your File and FileInputStream code for a call to getResourceAsStream(). Resources might be files on disk, or they might be parts of a JAR (or theoretically other things).


Also, your game works on platforms other than Windows (I just ran it on Mac OS X), but not everybody likes RAR format archives. You could get more people playing your game if you link to a ZIP (or better still, just link to your JAR directly since a JAR is actually just a ZIP with particular files in it).

pjimmy 2014-12-13 18:07

interesting, like how simple and original it is, well done

mikethewayne 2014-12-13 23:34

Thank you for all the feedback, greatly appreciated! Especially rjhunter, for the assistance. I added a .jar file link, however unfortunately, after trying both methods, still was unable to add music outside of the source file. getResourceAsStream only works in non-static methods, which I've found impossible, due to having to call the method from a static method, which is also impossible. Supplying the WAV in a seperate file called "src" didn't work either, unfortunately. Any other help would be greatly appreciated, however. Thank you!

thopis 2014-12-14 00:28

Very good!I love its interface!

robert_steiner 2014-12-14 10:47

Fun idea, although stats/costs should be redone. First pop up has 90% chance to do nothing.

maxmetallica 2014-12-29 21:08

nice work

kualitygames 2014-12-29 21:09

Fits the theme well. Nice idea, reminds me of Plague Inc. in a way, just more Cyber.