2 New Games to try

Question

Hi All,
Im not sure if this is the correct forum, but it has been very useful while we wrote these games, so I invite you all to come play our new games at:
http://www.crystalsquid.com/Games.php
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. We've had a couple of problems with the .jar's not loading correctly, one guy suggesting it was a Mozilla 1.4 bug but it works when we test it.
Please Share & Enjoy...
Dom

Answer 1

The Bee game seems way over complicated. Maybe it's
just me, but all that motion and vibrating around ...
The Traffic game I couldn't figure out the first time
through, then I read the Info on it, still didn't...We're sorry you didn't like Bee Mania very much, and had problems running Traffic Jammer. We have had a couple of failed downloads, and we are tracking the problem. Thank you very much for the feedback.
As for the loader, it's pretty simple if your resources are loaded externally (i.e. from the web server and not bundled with your code in a jar file). If it's bundled, then your a bit stuck as the VM has to load the jar before it can execute the code.
Otherwise you could use something like the following static class to store and load your data. You load the resources you need for displaying the progress information, and then initialise the loader which loads your resources in a seperate thread.
public class DataLoader extends Object implements Runnable
     public static volatile boolean     loadOK;
     public static volatile boolean     loadFailed;
     public static volatile float     progress;
     private static Thread          thread;
     public static void init()
          // [re] initialise loader
          initFailed = false;
          progress = 0.0f;
          initialised = false;
          // start loader thread
          thread = new Thread(new DataLoader());
          thread.setPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY+1);
          thread.setName("loader");
          thread.start();
     // only non-static func to load the static data
     public void run()
          // load all resources FROM WEB SERVER
          // As we go, increase 'progress' from 0 to 100
          // when finished set loadOK to true
          // IF we get an error, set loadFailed to true and return
and the main code would look something like:
// load resources to display loader
// initialise loader
Data.init();
// wait for loader to complete
while (true)
if ( Data.loadFailed )
// load failed, do something and exit
return false;
else if ( Data.loadOK )
// loaded data ok, jump to game
break;
else
// Draw bar on screen and display 'Data.progress'
// loaded resource ok, main game code here...
Hope this helps,
Dom