The Basketball Applet

BBApplet

What's new

Download

Put the Applet on your HTML-Page

How to Play

What's new

15.07.97

• Sound support added

Download

The basketball applet is provided as shareware. You can download BBApplet.zip, put it on a local HTML-page and play it as long as you want. If you want to put it on any of your homepages which is accessible from the WWW you have to:

1. Send me as much money as you think you want to give. Please send cash only. I will accept any currencies but Deutschmarks and American Dollars are preffered. Send it to:

Piet Jonas
Franz-Mehring-Straße 20
17489 Greifswald
Germany

2. Give me the credit and provide a link to my homepage (http://www.physik.uni-greifswald.de/~jonas) on the page where you put the applet.
3. Write me an e-mail with your name, address and the address of the page where you put the applet.

Download BBApplet.zip

It contains:

BBApplet.class, BBall.class, Basket.class	-	the Java class files
baskball.gif	-	the bitmap of the ball
basketl.gif, basketr.gif	-	the bitmaps of the basket (for left and right side)
spkon.gif	-	the bitmap of the speaker
BBApplet.html	-	the documentation
Test.html	-	here you can play
background.gif	-	the background bitmap for Test.html
bounce.au	-	the sound of the bouncing ball
basket.au	-	the sound of the ball touching the basket
hit.au	-	the sound, when the ball hits

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Put the Applet on your HTML-Page

This is a part of the source of Test.html:

...

<APPLET code=BBApplet.class width=500 height=400>
<PARAM name="background" value="255 255 255">
<PARAM name="standardtext" value="Game mode">
<PARAM name="hittext" value="Yes!">
<PARAM name="cheattext" value="Uhhh, you cheated">
<PARAM name="atempttext" value="Hit(s) Shot(s)">
<PARAM name="loadtext" value="Wait, loading images...">
<PARAM name="mode" value="1">
<PARAM name=backimage value="background.gif">
Your browser don't support Java, so see this screenshot at least:
<P>
<IMG SRC="screenshot.gif" HEIGHT=467 WIDTH=408>
</APPLET>
...

You can adjust the appearance of the applet with a lot of parameters. Here is a table with all possible parameters:

parameter	value	default (when you don't provide that parameter)
background	the background color as: <red> <green> <blue>	255 255 255
backimage	URL of the GIF or JPEG file, which will be shown in the background (Attention, can slow down the applet significantly)	none
sound	on - each bounce of the ball is accompanied by a sound off - no sound	off
hitmode	0 - demo mode 1 - game mode 2 - link mode 3 - two player mode	0, 2, if the "link" parameter is provided
link	URL with the location, where the browser will switch to, when you hit in link mode.	no default
standardtext	the text which will normaly be displayed	""
hittext	the text which will be displayed when your shot hit	"Click ball to go on!"
cheattext	the text which will be displayed when you tried to cheat	"You cheated, try again!"
atempttext	the words that indicate your shots and your hits (separated by a blank) in game mode <hits> <shots>	"Hits Shots"
loadtext	the text that will be displayed when the applet is waiting for th images to be loaded	"Loading Images"

Additionally you can customize the applet by providing new images for the ball, the basket, etc. and new sounds.

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How to play

Basics

The goal of this game is to shoot the ball into the basket. To shoot you have to leftclick inside the ball and drag the mouse. You will see a line from the middle of the ball to the mouse pointer. When you leave the mouse button, the ball will start moving in the direction of the line. The length of the line indicates the starting velocity. The ball bounces back from the left, the right and the bottom wall and from the ring of the basket. There is no ceiling. When you manage to shoot the ball into the basket, the ball stays there. Click somewhere inside the applet to go on. What happens depends on the mode of the applet.

Cheating

You can move the ball by right clicking it and dragging the mouse. But dragging the ball into the basket is not allowed.

Sound

Clicking the speaker icon toggles the sound on and off.

Modes

The applet has four different modes, demo mode, game mode, link mode and two player mode.

Demo mode

In demo mode you can train your shootings. Clicking somewhere after shooting the ball into the basket, let the ball simple fall down. See the example below:

Your browser don't support Java, so see this screenshot at least:



Game mode

In game mode your shots and your hits will be count. Clicking somewhere after shooting the ball into the basket, puts the ball somewhere on the floor. See the example.

Link mode

In link mode you can enter a new location by shooting the ball into the basket. Clicking somewhere after shooting the ball into the basket, let the browser switch to the specified link. See the example on my homepage.

Two player mode

In two player mode there are to baskets. The hits for each basket will be count independently. Clicking after shooting the ball into the basket, puts the ball somewhere on the floor. See the example.