PlAr is a
Platform Arena: a 2D platform shooting multiplayer game in JAVA 1.5
Thanks to Gameboom for the link!
PLatform ARena: is a 2D Multiplayer Shooting Game
PlAr is a Platform Arena. It is a Multiplayer scrolling game. In the gameplay the characters move through a scrolling level, plus you can fight with other humans! ..the idea is to play in the 2D style against other humans!
At the moment this is a beta version, future releases will have a level editor and a player editor,and a better gameplay feature, this is just a CONNECT'N'SHOOT version!
The engine of the game is very flexible and a lot of improvements can be easily done, if you think you can help in the design side or in the developement side, please contact me now!
Levels
In this beta version there is only a Level (Level0). It contains three respawn points, and some elevators.
Characters
You can choose to play with three different characters, they can all run and jump and fire, in the 2d platform*s, plus each of one have a personalized special skills that you activate with the ALT or ALT GR key.
Player Description Features
Squeak
Is a duck As a special skill he create a bunch of stupid ducks. that randomly attack enemies ...very effective!
Queen
is a human as a special skill can jumps high with his pogo.
KittyCat
is a Ninja cat can hidden himself as special skill
They all have an initial energy of 100 points that goes down when they are shooted and can be increased collecting the aid's pack in the level.
Guns
During the game you can choose from three guns, using 1,2 and 3 keys, playing you can collect ammo reloader. To aim and fire you can use the mouse pointer and click to fire!
Gun Description
Queen Gun it's a standard gun.
Mine Gun it throw mines.
Rage Gun it takes 10 ammo to one shot but kill a player if you hit him once.
Gameplay
At the moment this is a beta version of the multiplayer game, and the keylist is fixed, but is choosen to be the more confortable as possible:
Action Keys
RUN use ARROWS or A,D keys
JUMP use UP key or SPACE or W
BEND use DOWN or S key
SPECIAL use ALT or ALTGR key
FIRE use the MOUSE
GUNS use NUMBER key
CHAT use C key
HELP use F1
Future release
You may notice the graphics is really poor compared to the usual graphics game..well..you can help me, just email me!
Play
You should just dubleclick the jar file! (or rightclick->Execute with JAVA) the jar file.
If it does not work, you can try manually and run from the console:
java -jar plarServer.jar # to run the Server
java -jar plarClient.jar # to run the Client
http://code.google.com/p/plar/