EEClone

EEClone is an homage to Omega's Every Extend. It is a sample game that I developed during Summer 2006 for a seminar on Game Engine Design. There are many aspects of the game that can be extended and improved, but as it is, it demonstrates the following aspects of game development:

• update-based active rendering
• sprite animation
• music and sound effects with thread pooling
• collision detection and processing
• application of design patterns to game design

You can read more about it in the corresponding JERIC (now TOCE) article, Teaching Design Patterns Through Computer Game Development.

Controls

Use the arrow keys to move your bomb. Press the spacebar to explode. You receive points for the number of objects caught in the explosion. Pick up the orbs dropped by green squares for bonus points.

Play

• Play now via Java WebStart
• Download the executable jar

EEClone requires that you have Java installed. Reasonably recent installations should work via Java WebStart. You can download the latest Java environments from java.com.

Source

• EEClone project snapshot (1056k). This jar contains the EEClone source code, required libraries, art resources, and Eclipse .project and .classpath configuration files. If you find this to be a useful learning tool, please send me an email. (Note that in some operating systems, double-clicking the file will try to open this as if it's an executable jar even though it's not. Make sure you open it with an unarchiving application or import it directly into Eclipse.)

The game design is based strongly on Omega's Every Extend, and the background music is by Ween. The implementation contains elements from Andrew Davison's Killer Game Programming in Java.