Game Programming Hall of Fame

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These games were prepared by the students of Game Programming in Java courses at Cabrillo College. Many more excellent games were completed during the course, but these students decided to share their games with others.

Instructions

Most games are executable JAR files which you install and run as follows:

  • To install a game, click the link and download it to your computer "Desktop".
  • To run, double-click the JAR file with a mouse.
  • To "uninstall" a game, just delete the JAR file you downloaded

Each game has a README.txt file with more complete instructions for installing and playing the game. In addition, each game should have instructions in the game describing how to play.

Fall 2011 -- Alphabetical by Last Name

Note that you need Java 6 or later installed to run these games.

MyTetris by David Monroe: "A Tetris game with additional funtionality." (README.txt)

Planet Smackdown by Eamon Bohan: "A 2-player shooter space game." (README.txt)

Spring 2007 -- Alphabetical by Last Name

Insection by John Carlyle: "You are an animated yellow bee "jousting" with animated red bees." (README.txt)

Smart Bomb by Nathaniel Cesario: "The idea of the game is to almost solely use the environment to avoid enemies and ultimately beat the game." (README.txt)

Space Run by Andrew Evans: "In my game, you control a damaged spacecraft navigating an asteroid field." (README.txt)

Organoid Master by David Patt: "My game is about pitting skill and design against adaptive evolution and seeing well you can do." (README.txt)

Gate Defense by Michael Pitzer: "A sideways shooter where the player on the right shoots left the enemies on the left moving right." (README.txt)

Mutant Robot Apocalypse by Samuel Reiter: My game is about "a character, controlled by the player, who basically shoots his way through three different levels. The goal is to get to the last level and destroy the main boss." (README.txt)

Game2 by Scott Rogers: "The game is a Gradius style side scroller." (README.txt)

Spring 2006 -- Alphabetical by Last Name

Note that you need Java 5 or later installed to run these games.

Rocket's Adventure by Arturo Aparicio: My game is about a "rocket man on an adventure to save the forest." (README.txt)

Hazard Lizard by John Carlyle: "A side scrolling platform game in which you, the lizard, must collect the DNA strands while avoiding killing any enemies in the area." (README.txt)

Pen the Pig by Vincent Charles: "The name of the game almost says it all: Pen the Pig." (README.txt)

Curling by Keith Johnson: "Curling is a team game with aspects of horseshoes, shuffleboard and billiards. Players slide “rocks” weighing 44 lb down a rink of prepared ice toward a target at the other end." (README.txt)

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? by Nick McKay: My game "is an arcade style game where you play chicken trying to get to the other side of a busy street." (README.txt)

SONIC-MOVER Arcade GAME by Keith Ngo: "The game is to help the animals to relocate into the new Animal Shelter. The Super Power Sonic is called in for his duty. Unfortunately, the shelter is located in a remote location and movers were sent by some Evil-doer agents to kill Sonic. The mover uses the airplane to drop off furniture and animals. Meanwhile, other animals were let loose and run wild on the ground. Sonic has to save them all..." (README.txt)

Game! by Scott Rogers: My game "is a side scrolling shooter. The player moves his ship (displayed at a blue dot) destroying the enemies that come at while avoiding as much of the return fire as possible. There are 4 levels in the game, and at the end of every level there is a boss." (README.txt)

Last Updated: January 28 2012 @21:17:28