Far From Earth

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.61
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.56
Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.78
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.22
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.42
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.20
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★39%
The story of the game is in the instructions :3

I'm not sure about the launchers, not tested.
Be sure to have Java JRE 1.7 and the JDK.
If it doesn't work, look for "JAVA_HOME" environment variable.

If you have "major.minor version 51.0" error, install Java 1.7.

PS : Sorry for my bad english, shame on me.

Comments19

Zakalicious
Zakalicious27 Aug 2012, 02:36
Difficult learning curb. I like this style of game though
Filth27 Aug 2012, 02:54
Has some potential. Cool music. Not very on-theme.
minism
minism27 Aug 2012, 03:10
Couldnt run on OSX 10.7 Lion with 'java -jar FarFromEarth.jar'

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/ramikaze/farfromearth/FarFromEarth : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
Ramikazeauthor27 Aug 2012, 03:12
For "major.minor version 51.0" error you must to install Java 1.7.
mokesmoe27 Aug 2012, 03:13
Got to around wave 100 and it lagged so much from all the bullets it became unplayable.
Yngar
Yngar27 Aug 2012, 03:15
Got up to wave 100 and thousands of objects on screen. I know I could have wiped the screen but that seemed like a waste of good archers, I had the robots and stuff but the archers were still running around. Pretty fun game, good job!
Mamick27 Aug 2012, 03:21
A bit easy, but a very fun game. I got a null pointer exception at entity.Warrior.update<Warrior.java:60> though. Also lagged a bit.
LogGiant27 Aug 2012, 05:31
I thought this was pretty great. About halfway through round 1 I finally understood the controls, and after that it wasn't too hard. When I realized I can just spam warriors and get a ton of gold I started to fight 3 - 4 waves at a time. Right now I am waiting for waves 89 - 108 to die from my military so the game quits lagging so much. Besides the easiness, this game is a lot of fun. I would buy it if it was a complete game!
kidanger27 Aug 2012, 11:21
Very nice, but in the end (wave 100+) it starts being slow (too many turrets ?). We can have a lot of gold very quickly, but converting it into iron is a bit boring.
This game is fun to play, anyway. :)
FredericRP
FredericRP27 Aug 2012, 14:57
FIY : Chrome + Mac = no Java 7 :(
(Chrome is a 32 bits only browser), for anyone that uses Chrome instead of Safari or Firefox, you've got to install Java 7 and never use Java in Chrome again.
Problem Machine28 Aug 2012, 14:51
Fun little tower defense kind of thing. First time I played I ended up making like 300 archers, which seemed super effective but slowed the game to a crawl. After that I tried making military units and snipers which seemed a lot less effective. Balance might not be great.
TinyPlatypus29 Aug 2012, 10:25
Very nice music and fun once I realised what to do! But only made it to wave 107. :)
Enimal29 Aug 2012, 10:34
A very fun game, with nice music, that was cool :)
Cthulhu
Cthulhu31 Aug 2012, 21:56
Can you rename windows in JAR? I think it would be better.
Kayelgee1 Sep 2012, 00:24
I like the concept
EatThePath1 Sep 2012, 00:26
Quite neat, once you figure out the controls. Around wave 75 I had enough guys and monsters and bullets everywhere that lag started becoming an issue though. Monsters also stopped being a real threat... By wave 100 I had to stop because it ran so slow.

Would also be nicer if the archer's shots were more visible. Nice music though.
EatThePath1 Sep 2012, 00:26
Quite neat, once you figure out the controls. Around wave 75 I had enough guys and monsters and bullets everywhere that lag started becoming an issue though. Monsters also stopped being a real threat... By wave 100 I had to stop because it ran so slow.

Would also be nicer if the archer's shots were more visible.
Josh @ Dreamland
Josh @ Dreamland7 Sep 2012, 17:10
Could you build this with Java 6? My OS doesn't offer Java 7, or vice-versa.
Ramikazeauthor7 Sep 2012, 17:54
Yes I can but the JRE must be JRE7, is it ok ?
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