BitShift

My friend and I have been working on a project.

It is called Snake, and its the old fashion snake game that used to be on the first cell phones with games. Of course this 1 has a few more features but we wanted to keep it simple.

It was 100% programmed in Java, no support from other languages.


I am in Computer Science 2 AP at my high school, so its only my second year with Java, and its my first programming language.

I've found it extremely easy to learn. Once you understand how to use the libraries, and read the JavaDocs then you can do almost anything without much help.

The website is http://www.bitshift.astahost.com/SnakeWeb/index.htm


I'm hoping to host a new website here, but instead as a personal site with all my projects on it, including Snake.

I have the exe file to download and you can run it using Java Web Start and as an Applet.


If your wondering how I turned it into an Exe, I used a program called JSmooth. Just google it.


I'm going to try to attach the Snake.jar file to this post. I don't know if it will let me.

A jar file is an executable jar file, if you build it right. If it doesnt run on double click then go to dos window and go to directory with game and type

java -jar Snake.jar

Make sure you have newest Java JRE


If you have any questions on how I implemented anything feel free to ask!

My favorite IDE is JCreator.http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ is a powerful, easy to use IDE for new programmers.It makes designing and maintaining projects easy to understand.A portable IDE that i use is GEL, that I keep on my flash drive.I don't know the website so just google "Gel"

Our Server is 70.173.95.166:27017

For some odd reason its supposed to be down the month of may. I'm not sure why but it will be running again in June. We don't do CAL or any type of competitive gaming we just play for fun mostly.

Website is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

My FPS is usually between 40-60, average of 50 and I think that is awesome. You really only start to notice the reduction of frames below 36 ( I think thats what my biology teacher once told me ).I heard T.V runs at like 42 FPS or somewhere around there and that seems pretty low, but it does not make a difference to your eyes.FPS in games seems more like a macho thing, the higher FPS you have, the cooler you are. Same goes with ping too. My FPS might be int 50's but my ping is also, in the 50's or lower and thats pretty awesome.