Java4K 2009 Competition
See games from previous competitions: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 (current)
The games in the Java4K 2009 Competition (current)
Total 67 games.
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Beez Helper | abhi | 277 | Feb 28, 2009 | It all started in a small garden far far away!! bees are gathering nectar from flowers and busy building their hive. Caterpillars destroy the beautiful flowers and leave the bees in a panic. One man is ready to help the bees by protecting the... | Play Now! Details! |
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Word Twister | Andy Cook | 630 | Dec 21, 2008 | A basic clone of Text Twist. Find as many words as possible from the letters given. Longer words score more points and there is a bonus for finding all words in one round. Find the six-letter word to progress to the next round. There are 60 rounds in... | Play Now! Details! |
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Robo rampage | Andy Cook | 1092 | Dec 21, 2008 | Robots have taken over, eradicated humanity and flattened the cities. The only men alive are 3 survivors on an space station. But hope is not lost. Humanity's genetic code has been saved in indestructible gene pods scattered across the 5 continents.... | Play Now! Details! |
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i4kopter | bjarne holen | 333 | Feb 27, 2009 | icopter clone (iphone app). the game is not very complex, just try to avoid hitting stuff with the helicopter. gravity pulls helicopter down, any key will accelerate helicopter upwards, besides space and q (pause and quit) | Play Now! Details! |
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Sea through | Bonbon-Chan | 4307 | Dec 23, 2008 | You are lost in the middle of an ocean. No fuel, no wind. Your only hope is a wave that pushs you to your destination. | Play Now! Details! |
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BlockBuster4k | Bruno Nyffeler | 785 | Feb 3, 2009 | Welcome to BlockBuster4k. The aim of the game is to 'bust'* all blocks (i.e. click them away) before they leave the window at the top. New blocks are constantly added at the bottom. There are just two rules in the game: 1. You may bust anything... | Play Now! Details! |
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World Rally Driver 4k | Craig Mitchell | 2601 | Nov 30, 2008 | Race on asphalt, dirt, and snow. Don't let your ghost car win! *NEW* Now with save and load replay feature! | Play Now! Details! |
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Virtual On 4k | CyanPrime | 228 | Feb 25, 2009 | This is a 4k remake [that I made in just five days] of the awesome mech fighting game Virtual On. Programmed by William Starkovich. Virtual on is owned by Sega. All copyright material used in this fan game were used without permission. This game... | Play Now! Details! |
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Just Get Bigger 4K | Daniel Fekete | 616 | Feb 19, 2009 | The goal is just to get the biggest possible, by eating the smaller bubbles. Watch out, because the larger ones will eat you! | Play Now! Details! |
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Fortress4K | Erik Hooijmeijer | 717 | Jan 4, 2009 | Trapped in a underground fortress, 4 scientists are waiting to be rescued by you, the armies most skilled helicopter pilot. If all the blockades, laser cannons and misile turrets are not enough, the swift rescue of the scientists is also hindered by... | Play Now! Details! |
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4K Maze | Gavin Murrison | 919 | Jan 24, 2009 | You are a blue box, trapped in a maze! The red boxes are chasing you! If they catch you, you will die, lose a point, and be reincarnated in a new maze with less red boxes and more green boxes. If you get to a green box, you will escape this maze... | Play Now! Details! |
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Alienz 4K | Hsaka | 574 | Jan 13, 2009 | Alienz is a puzzle game where the objective is to survive as long as possible by removing as many Alienz from the game board as you can. The Game Board consists of an 8x8 grid of squares. An alien will appear at the top of this grid at the start of... | Play Now! Details! |
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Doodles | Hsaka | 914 | Jan 25, 2009 | What happens when blackboard doodles come to life? Help [abuse..] Doodle Man as he squares off against the perils on the blackboard. Features ragdoll physics and lots of levels. | Play Now! Details! |
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Frequent Flier | Jonathan Teutenberg | 438 | Jan 2, 2009 | "Look no hands!". Sing your saucer through the clouds and rise to greatness. | Play Now! Details! |
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4x4k | Kevin Glass | 7054 | Dec 24, 2008 | Drive your truck across the 3 environments in the fastest time possible. Simple and fun verlet physics truck game. | Play Now! Details! |
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Keggle | Kevin Glass | 1451 | Jan 3, 2009 | A remake of Peggle in 4K. Glowy pegs, retro sounds and glorious physics. | Play Now! Details! |
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Putty Shuffle | Kevin Glass | 351 | Feb 1, 2009 | Drag the coloured blocks to slide them round the level. When two blocks of the same colour touch they will join and can then only be moved together. Move the coloured blocks to the matching coloured targets (dashed boxes) to complete the level. | Play Now! Details! |
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BlisterBall | Luiz Fernando Estivalet | 371 | Jan 12, 2009 | Simple game where you have to destroy all 10 quicking balls! | Play Now! Details! |
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PacPitfall4k | Luiz Fernando Estivalet | 308 | Feb 23, 2009 | Pacman got lost in Pitfall land! | Play Now! Details! |
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Dragon 4k Boxing | Maciej Bogdanski | 385 | Jan 12, 2009 | Its a 4k remake of nes/snes/arcade classic (well, not really a classic but i loved it Wink) fighting game with unique controlls. | Play Now! Details! |
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Red Baron 4K | Marcin Kochanowski | 1342 | Jan 14, 2009 | During WWI all the alcohol run out very fast, and you and your fellow pilots have nothing better to do than stand head to head in a deadly air combat just to see "WINS!" below your plane on the screen... Oh...and it's also about "who's the real... | Play Now! Details! |
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Crack Tower Defense | Mark Bernard | 1343 | Dec 17, 2008 | Tower defense. You have three types of towers: light, medium and heavy(green, yellow, red). There are also 3 types of bad guys with the same sizes and colours. Stop the bad guys from getting to the end. There is also a splash damage tower which is... | Play Now! Details! |
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Conquest of Planets | Mark Bernard | 637 | Jan 10, 2009 | You are trying to take over all of the planets. The computer is trying to do the same. | Play Now! Details! |
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Left 4k Dead | Markus Persson | 9080 | Dec 8, 2008 | Surrounded by zombies in a strangely planned town, your goal is to find the red safe zones on each level. Kill zombies, collect power-ups and try to survive the hoards. Being "inspired" by Left 4 Dead, Left 4k Dead has the same levels every time you... | Play Now! Details! |
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MEG4kMAN | Markus Persson | 1923 | Jan 27, 2009 | Mega Man in four kilobyte! Move Mega Man through twenty five screens of old school platformer fun. Featuring four different enemies, 25 screens, 16 colors, spectrum level graphics and absolutely no sound at all! | Play Now! Details! |
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Scr4mble | Matt Campbell | 351 | Dec 20, 2008 | Unscramble as many words as you can in 2 minutes. You receive 1-point-per-letter when you unscramble a word. If you use the cheat option, you lose the same amount of points. | Play Now! Details! |
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Tekicars4k | MÃÂ¥ns Olson | 741 | Dec 8, 2008 | Tekicars4k is a puzzle game. The goal is to construct a map that will let all your tekicars leave safely. My hope was to create game mechanics somewhere between The Incredible Machine and Chip\'s Challenge. I hope you enjoy it! | Play Now! Details! |
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Bridge4k | MÃÂ¥ns Olson | 2497 | Feb 18, 2009 | Bridge4k is a bridge building game in 4kb. Good luck! Click on the website link above for the Applet version! | Play Now! Details! |
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Splosh4k | MÃÂ¥ns Olson | 283 | Feb 26, 2009 | Splosh4k is a game of discovery. Try to paint as much of each level as you need to, with as few shots as possible. Click on the website link above for the Applet version! | Play Now! Details! |
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Pixeloids4k | MÃÂ¥ns Olson | 559 | Mar 1, 2009 | Pixeloids4k is a puzzle game in which you guide a fluid-like substance into target regions, by creating shockwave pulses with your mouse. Click on the website link above for the Applet version! | Play Now! Details! |
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submarin | Michael Bliem | 206 | Feb 22, 2009 | based on puzzle quest | Play Now! Details! |
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jm00 - a boomshine clone in 4k v1.2 | michael vogt | 818 | Dec 5, 2008 | use the mouse and klick on the bubbles, make sure the bubble touches each other. there different kinds of bubbles, 20 levels and fancy sound fx. comments -> michu at neophobdotcom changelog 1.1 - 1.2 -add some gfx changelog 1.0 - 1.1... | Play Now! Details! |
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Honey4kKeeper | Nanu | 156 | Feb 28, 2009 | Honey Keepers have to get honey from hives created by Bees. Keepers can go up by ladder to catch honey from hives and collect/fill in left bottom jar. Bees sting keeper, so keeper can use cigar to make bees inactive for sometime. If bee stings keeper,... | Play Now! Details! |
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NiGHTS 4k | Orangy Tang | 1024 | Jan 7, 2009 | A remake of the Saturn game NiGHTS Into Dreams in 4k. Fly through each dream collecting the blue chips and depositing them in the pod to escape. | Play Now! Details! |
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Gravitational Fourks | pjt33 | 794 | Jan 12, 2009 | In space warfare, putting enough fuel on a missile to power it to its target turned out to be impractical. Instead skilled artillerymen turn to a naturally available energy source: gravitational potential. | Play Now! Details! |
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Crimsonland4k version 1.001 | rattas | 952 | Dec 5, 2008 | It seemed deserted, this dusty little plain on this backwater planet. After the initial surprise you quickly recovered and torched the evil beast inside its hive. But the hives are everywhere, spawning more of the evil creatures. You've got... | Play Now! Details! |
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Star 4x | rdcarvallo | 1937 | Dec 22, 2008 | Your mission is to destroy the fleet of spiky enemy ships. For this you hve received the best ship of the federation. Fly through the sapce in this 3D shooter | Play Now! Details! |
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HexoDama | rdcarvallo | 429 | Jan 17, 2009 | Puzzle game, your goal is to take out the gems lining up 4 or more of them. Before the gems are removed you have a little period of time to make combos lining up new gems that haven't been activated. | Play Now! Details! |
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Q*Bert4K | Rick | 470 | Jan 31, 2009 | A Qbert clone in 4K | Play Now! Details! |
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Bio 4K | Rick | 1191 | Jan 30, 2009 | Strange bio morph creatures battle it out for survival. | Play Now! Details! |
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Arena4k | Rowdy | 400 | Jan 28, 2009 | My first 4k game, and one of my first games period. It's basically a simple birds eye shooter. Please tell me what you think, any bugs, and suggestions. NOTE : For the most up-to-date version, go to the java gaming forums.... | Play Now! Details! |
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RhythmSphere | Shannon Smith | 649 | Jan 15, 2009 | An abstract rhythm based game. Press keys 1 2 3 4 in time to the music. | Play Now! Details! |
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Anyone 4 Tennis? | SimonH | 1251 | Jan 10, 2009 | 4K table tennis | Play Now! Details! |
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Asteroid Alert! | SimonH | 488 | Jan 10, 2009 | The planet has entered an area of dangerous asteroids. With nothing more than a state-of-the-art spaceship armed with "Rockbusterââ¢" neutron torpedos, you must save the planet from destruction! | Play Now! Details! |
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Deathchase | SimonH | 803 | Jan 10, 2009 | Clear the forsets of evil motorcyclists! | Play Now! Details! |
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Jetp4k | SimonH | 467 | Jan 10, 2009 | Collect fuel and as many gems as you can! | Play Now! Details! |
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4bidden Fruit | SimonH | 3293 | Jan 25, 2009 | 20 golden crescents float in the garden. Can you catch them all? Burst pollenballs to fertilise seeds. When seeds flash move onto them and grow plants to help you in your search. NB This game is a homage to the genius game "Pixeljunk Eden" from... | Play Now! Details! |
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4bsolution | SimonH | 1811 | Feb 16, 2009 | The little ones have all become lost! Can you find them and bring them safely home? Gather all the tiny white little ones to their shimmering circle home. Beware of the crayfish when you have little ones. | Play Now! Details! |
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QuadSquad4k | soothsayer | 566 | Jan 20, 2009 | It is a 4k remake of Asteroids video game, which was played in my childhood. However I use quads instead of asteroids. Fly your ship across the 8 levels and destroy enemy quads. | Play Now! Details! |
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Grasshopper4k | soothsayer | 761 | Feb 15, 2009 | Control your car and get through the hilly terrain. Race against the time and beat your record if you can. Terrain is random generated so every game is different. | Play Now! Details! |
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Treasure4k | SquashMonster | 278 | Mar 1, 2009 | Help our intrepid hero dash through seemingly endless monster-ridden caves in his search for... Treasure! Treasure4k procedurally generated game about exploration and terror. Your only defense against the cave\'s denizens is to keep running. | Play Now! Details! |
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Space Paranoids 2D4K | StephR | 425 | Mar 1, 2009 | Your new program has been trapped in a bad memory sector by the Java 6 Update 66 VM ( Virtual Machine ) ! Defend it from formatting by waves of the VM\\\'s recognizer and battle tank programs... If you feel lost, you should have a look at the movie... | Play Now! Details! |
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RevolvoMan-4K | SteveyO | 187 | Mar 1, 2009 | Collect all the coins before your time runs out. 50 levels of increasing difficulty. | Play Now! Details! |
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Ice Fighters | Tim Faulkes | 449 | Jan 16, 2009 | Earth has been taken over by evil fire elements! You have discovered an ice weapon powerful enough to fight them but is it too late? You need to be able to escape through the maze where you found the weapon, 3 levels deep in the earth. Just watch out... | Play Now! Details! |
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Kart | Tim Foden | 3174 | Dec 2, 2008 | 3D Kart racing game. Drive 3 laps of 3 different randomly generated courses against computer opponents. Score more points for better finish positions. Choose the ability level of the computer opponents. [Version 0.93] | Play Now! Details! |
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Sea Spin | Tom Palmer | 2036 | Dec 25, 2008 | Reach all 5 goal points on each level. Don't crash. Beat predetermined levels as quickly as you can (and even the 13th level can be beat), or hit Insert key for random level generation. | Play Now! Details! |
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Infinite Platformer 4k | treed | 1231 | Dec 10, 2008 | One day a king was walking around his castle. He then noticed a door that had never been there before. He opened it and fell into a dimension that had an infinite number of platforms going in one direction! Also, there were evil jester things.... | Play Now! Details! |
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Critters4k | Ulf Ochsenfahrt | 548 | Feb 3, 2009 | Critters are attacking your desktop! Set up your tower defense and let them come. 100 levels of mayhem! | Play Now! Details! |
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Desert Bus | zero.one | 11013 | Dec 27, 2008 | Finally, you can experience the thrill of driving a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real-time. Inspired by the unreleased Sega CD videogame, this is Desert Bus. Desert Bus is designed for people who do not like violence in their games,... | Play Now! Details! |
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F-Zero 4K | zero.one | 1843 | Jan 1, 2009 | In a time when multibillionaires with lethargic lifestyles create deadly forms of racing for pure entertainment, only you can take the reins and prove your worth to the cheering crowds. At speeds exceeding 500 km/h, you will pilot a plasma-powered... | Play Now! Details! |
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J-Type | zero.one | 561 | Jan 4, 2009 | On the edge of a dark empire, you embark on a mission many have called futile. Take control of the J-9a Orb and blast them out of the sky. Plow through 8 stages of galactic mayhem. Seek out their weaknesses and destroy. The future control of the entire... | Play Now! Details! |
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Super Marble World | zero.one | 594 | Jan 12, 2009 | Take control of a marble and race through 8 challenging worlds. Jump on other marbles to destroy or stun them. | Play Now! Details! |
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Coffee Shop Puzzle | zero.one | 616 | Jan 25, 2009 | The coffee shop puzzle is a variation of a classic computer science problem. A local coffee shop sells coffee in 5 different cup sizes: Small, Medium, Large, Grande and Grande Supremo. For the puzzle, an empty cup of each size is flipped upside-down... | Play Now! Details! |
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Run Over Zombies | zero.one | 369 | Feb 15, 2009 | In yet another attempt to extend the shelf-life of Hostess Twinkies by 3 more years, confectionary scientists accidentally developed a deadly virus which quickly spread across the planet transforming most of the population into zombies. As a lowly... | Play Now! Details! |
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Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe | zero.one | 258 | Feb 15, 2009 | Inspired by OXO, a tic-tac-toe game created for the EDSAC computer in 1952 as part of Alexander Sandy Douglasâ groundbreaking Ph.D thesis on human-computer interaction, this is Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe. The rules are essentially the same as traditional... | Play Now! Details! |
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Invaders | zero.one | 177 | Feb 22, 2009 | Invaders is a cross between Space Invaders and Gauntlet. To win the game, youâll need to strategically battle through 8 stages of mayhem. Plowing directly into a horde of alien invaders is typically fatal. Instead, youâll need to carefully plan... | Play Now! Details! |
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Hunt 4k Bread | zero.one | 589 | Feb 28, 2009 | As a globule of butterâhigh in saturated fat and cholesterolâitâs your mission to hunt down demonized slices of white bread. Churn through 8 stages of carbohydrate mayhem to win the esteemed Margarine Belt. | Play Now! Details! |