" this is clearly not a question. don't know why the post is displayed as such"
Indeed. But like many others, you probably missed the Topic Type combo box displayed when you create a thread. You can also, probably, see it when you edit your message. I changed it anyway.

And I tried your game. Very slick, amusing, and well done. Good illustration of the small world there. I quickly abandoned it because, for some reason, too often it didn't react when I pressed the mouse (or not quickly enough). It is frustrating.
Note: bonus point if you have settings to allow deactivating, independently, music and sound effects. Something too often forgotten in online games...

I liked it a lot too. I didn't seem to have the problem phi.lho was talking about. Very inspirational. I've watched a few Ludum Dares but never participated.

Hey thanks for trying the game guys!

Jump timing is a serious thing. Great game!
If you did any tricks for the basic sounds let us know.
Last time I did Audioclip it required playing and stopping them all so that they would be available and not downloaded when played. There was the issue of playing only one sound at once. The libraries for sound are new to me and have been looking for next minimal step up in sound processing. Notably playing more than one wav at once.

I created a small quick and dirty class. Each clip is loaded in a different line so I can play different clips at the same time. However it cannot play the same clip twice at the same time (unless loaded twice in a different Clip object).

1. import javax.sound.sampled.AudioFormat;
2. import javax.sound.sampled.AudioInputStream;
3. import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
4. import javax.sound.sampled.Clip;
5. import javax.sound.sampled.DataLine;
6. public class SoundHelper {
7.    
8.     public static Clip load(String fileName) {
9.         try {
10.             InputStream is = SoundHelper.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(fileName);
11.             AudioInputStream audioInputStream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(is);
12.             if (audioInputStream != null) {
13.                 AudioFormat format = audioInputStream.getFormat();
14.                 DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(Clip.class, format);
15.                 Clip clip = (Clip) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
16.                 clip.open(audioInputStream);
17.                 return clip;
18.             } else {
19.                 System.out.println("load: cannot read " + fileName);
20.             }
21.         } catch (Exception e) {
22.             System.out.println("load: cannot load " + fileName);
23.             e.printStackTrace();
24.         }
25.         return null;
26.     }
27.     public static void play(Clip clip) {
28.         if (clip != null) {
29.             clip.setFramePosition(0);
30.             clip.start();
31.         }
32.     }
33.     public static void stop(Clip clip) {
34.         if(clip != null) {
35.             clip.stop();
36.         }
37.     }
38. }

Great fun!