Caffeine Invaders

Something I bashed out this weekend (18/6/04-21/6/04) to teach myself some Java. It just needs a few more sound effects, and possibly some gameplay tweaks.

The Story So far: the evil alien invaders have discovered that their life is much better with caffeine. However, they've utterly depleted their own stocks, and driven every thing in their planet that made caffeine into extinction, and they really need their fix. So, they've decided to invade Earth, having heard of this Java stuff. Naturally, something needs to be done about this, so it falls to you to save the world's IT industry...

FAQ

Help! It's not working!

Make sure your Java plugin is up to date. Google knows all...

Eww... annoying sounds.

Press 'S' to toggle the sounds

What are the keys?

Left arrow for left, right arrow for right, space to fire.

But the keys won't respond...

Try clicking on the applet.

Why do they get faster when most of them die?

I think it's something to do with the caffeine. When there's lots of them, they have to share out their limited supply between lots of them, so they get short caffeine rations and end up being quite sluggish. When there's less of them, the supplies don't have to stretch so far, so they become a lot perkier.

It's slowwww

Well, yes. I'm sure it was faster when I was writing it. Try making sure it's the only thing you're running.