mudslingin'

The other project I'd forgotten about (until I read this paper) was Mudslingin', the second year undergrad (5 year old), 5 person "group" project. It's a two player, network enabled game in which you try to drown your opponent by throwing balloons full of mud or water at them. Your opponent has bombs to blow up your dams - great fun for the whole family. It has quite a lot of features now I look back on it, even it it was rough around the edges.

Click here to play (binary file run at your own risk, requires Java 1.5+). There are lots of bugs, many to do with a 40 minute conversion into the webstart format. Sound, save and networking probably won't work in the webstart edition. The options menu seems to freeze everything. You also need another person to play against! Keys:

Menus: Up, Down, Enter
Player 1: Up, Down, Left, Right
Player 2: K,L,O,M
Quit: Escape

Go "start game" then pick one of the levels like 'blood fountain'.

Group report is here. Source files are here (I'm releasing them under a WTFPL), and includes the (bizarre) perl server.

I think we came top of the year (after a database blunder I ended up being able to see the whole year's grades).

Now this is published, I can pack my computer up so it can go into storage.