Shyguy’s Cave of Death

Posted by alex on January 20th, 2007

Shyguy’s Cave of Death is a game I made written in Java using the Slick 2D Java OpenGL library. It is inspired by the popular flash game Copter. You fly the Shyguy up and down the screen through the maze collecting various coins and avoiding the deadly mines.

Shyguy's Cave of Death 
Shyguy's Cave of Death

To play the game you must have Java 1.5 or later installed. Visit the Java website here and download the latest JRE for your operating system: Download Latest Version of Java

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Highscores

Pos Name Score Level Submitted
1 19 22617 7 12th May 2009 01:31
2 DeX 19712 7 14th Jan 2008 21:48
3 Pede 17575 7 24th Dec 2009 00:46
4 LeMaster 17482 6 15th Oct 2007 18:15
5 XabiDL63 16890 7 29th Jan 2008 01:28
6 Mahesh 16140 7 17th Oct 2008 22:27
7 Blucky 15994 7 31st Oct 2008 18:29
8 Ptitshyguy.sky 15994 7 4th Jan 2008 05:17
9 cybereric 15149 7 31st Mar 16:18
10 Nate Sucks 14445 7 16th Jul 2008 22:37
11 wawrzek 14408 7 13th Dec 2007 19:24
12 Pede 14373 7 17th Dec 2009 17:44
13 Blu3 14026 7 11th May 2009 11:49
14 Phoenix 13940 6 8th Dec 2007 23:11
15 asdasd 13757 7 20th Jun 11:10
16 Eric B 13276 6 4th Apr 2009 18:25
17 Amber H. 13276 6 7th Oct 2008 06:08
18 Cubein 12815
19 dvdgzlez 12706 7 10th Oct 2009 03:21
20 Thomas H S 12195 7 25th Sep 2008 16:25
21 AllJohnny 11059 6 7th Aug 2007 05:50
22 NICK 9933 7 29th Feb 2008 19:11
23 Yefet 9642 7 24th Mar 11:46
24 hansdampf 9320 6 25th Nov 2008 21:25
25 Bertone 9174 6 28th Sep 2008 12:46
26 morfu 8947 7 14th Nov 2009 16:15
27 Nibuen 8852 6 9th Aug 2007 02:06
28 GuodMan 8703
29 Fish 8503 6 3rd Jul 2007 03:30
30 Albon 8253 6 12th Jul 2007 15:44
31 Krajsnick 8049 6 21st Aug 2007 18:26
32 hungarian 7967 6 3rd Oct 2009 19:26
33 kogut 7879 6 23rd Nov 2007 00:23
34 riorobert 7683 6 30th Jun 2007 15:03
35 OJ Pierre 7578 5 1st Jul 2008 00:14
36 Limme 7475 6 17th Oct 2008 09:27
37 ElAnders 7152 6 7th Jun 02:06
38 Kosz85 6942 6 7th Sep 2007 02:55
39 ark_adius 6883 6 13th Dec 2007 19:22
40 grzes641 6789 6 28th Nov 2007 18:10
41 diego 6666 6 4th Nov 2009 15:40
42 Zwergesel 6540
43 pepe 6383 6 7th Mar 13:15
44 r4tch3t 6154
45 Ahlberg 6135 5 1st Jul 2007 15:25
46 Naise 6087 5 30th Jun 2007 00:28
47 ArtificialHero 5989 6 7th Jul 2007 12:42
48 Er1k 5951 5 21st Dec 2008 16:54
49 Nibuen 5924 6 16th Jan 21:39
50 Limme 5783 5 16th Oct 2008 11:21
51 Woof82 5616
52 Nicksadunce 5506 4 13th Jan 2008 14:44
53 juju 5504 6 26th Aug 2008 19:21
54 Mee 5489 5 30th Aug 2009 07:13
55 motherfucker 5467 6 1st Aug 2007 20:00
56 Gladi 5441 6 30th Nov 2007 16:04
57 Motig 5278 5 3rd Jul 10:22
58 Motig 5278 5 31st May 02:15
59 Junior 5211 5 24th Jun 2007 22:31
60 uyuy 5187 6 30th May 2009 10:26
61 Archon 5174 5 19th Nov 2008 07:50
62 Nath 5173
63 Alex 5145 5 17th Apr 2009 19:52
64 Pierre sug 5120 5 10th Aug 2007 01:53
65 yodasarmpit 5092
66 glaeken 5074
67 Glombool 5024 5 2nd Dec 2008 07:37
68 EroX 4995 6 9th Aug 2007 12:44
69 torb 4930 6 2nd Jan 03:10
70 jimmy 4899 6 11th Apr 2009 19:57
71 Tommy 4899 6 5th Jul 19:43
72 jony 4839 5 18th Apr 2008 02:48
73 nard 4801 5 3rd Oct 2008 14:49
74 yTrooper 4771 6 16th Nov 2007 20:12
75 theos 4749 5 5th Nov 2008 19:21
76 Snae 4693 5 20th Oct 2007 22:21
77 Teamtd11 4684
78 OldY 4630
79 Paffik 4602 6 19th Apr 2009 13:57
80 diego 4574 6 28th Oct 2009 14:51
81 DamnNice 4524 6 1st Aug 2007 10:46
82 martin din sopa 4509 5 9th Aug 2007 15:17
83 TOBIE 4474 6 31st Mar 08:02
84 Limme 4451 5 15th Oct 2008 17:18
85 daniel 4424 5 11th May 2008 18:26
86 DerShodan 4424 5 8th May 2008 22:32
87 GIR 4424 6 13 hours 59 minutes ago
88 shag 4419 5 24th Oct 2008 22:39
89 Archon 4415 6 11th Sep 2008 06:24
90 c.u.later 4309
91 kipman725 4239 5 1st Dec 2007 14:21
92 Simon 4176 5 30th Sep 2007 19:17
93 Riko 4114 5 5th Feb 2008 14:22
94 Lorquis w/ FLU! 4113
95 ChristIsLord 4107 5 13th Dec 2008 05:49
96 Gazo 4048 6 27th Apr 2009 10:38
97 CJ 4036 5 29th Mar 2009 23:30
98 Dzarg 4030 5 8th Jun 2008 07:56
99 Barack Obama 3993 5 19th Nov 2008 14:25
100 lol Pierre 3896 5 10th Aug 2007 01:43

26 Responses to “Shyguy’s Cave of Death”

This game is so fun… the source is not open huh ?

Thanks, yeah unfortunately it’s not open source. But I don’t think you would want to take a look at the code; it’s really not very pretty. :)

And everyone would likely just scan the code for vulnerabilities.

H.B.

Well I should hope not everyone would do that but certain people might, yes. But that is not what I’m worried about. It wouldn’t take someone who was keen enough very much effort to decompile the game as it is written in Java and I haven’t made any effort to protect the code. Even so, I’m not sure what kind of vulnerabilities someone might hope to find in the code. If you want to try to submit a fake score then go ahead. Looking at the code won’t help you much there. :D

Good work. It’s really funny game!

It is posible to get from you some parts of code? I think about blood and smoke’s effects. Decompiled code might not compile.

Hey You!
Your game is amazing! Wow I love shyguy so much! I’m french, sorry for my poor English!
I Hope you will create other games of the best Mario ennemy!
^_^
Please take my mail, I wanna talk with you about the way you create this game, please! :-)
Thanks a lot! See you soon for Beating the Number one! ^^

Shy [ ptitshyguy.skyrock.com ]

Yes i’m the second now ^_^
Take care Lemaster, here i come!!!

(Is my english correct ? :-P )

Hello ! Nice to talk with you!
Hey I just have a question… my records was older than ” 2 days ago ” -_-
No worry, but i think the game don’t work correctly with the records, maybe cause my computer is very strange ^_^

Just, I want to know whats the empty scores mean… you know the scores are marqued with the day of the highscores, but some records haven’t got date… Why ?
Thanks a lot for your game :-) I love it!

Hello Shyguy,

The highscores that don’t have a date were recorded before I had implemented the recording of the date. Similarly with the level reached. The time will just show the last time that you submitted your score, that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s when you first achieved that score.

Ok
Hey, i can’t play SCOTD anymore… shall i uninstall the software and install it one more time ?
Seems like you beat us Dex… Wow Oo congratulations !
I reeaaaly need to beat you ^_-

Sorry for the current brokenness of the game. I’m endeavouring to fix it.

Sorry about the temporary loss of Shyguy service. Normal service has now resumed and we’d like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you…

i got just over 20000 at lvl 8 the other day!!!! yeye

i would have posted the score but my computer is f***ed up bad :P

That’s impressive, Nintendo luver, considering that there is no level 8 :p

a friend of mine made his own one of this the same thing but it had 100 levels that’s why it was so screwy on my computer i deleted it off though as after i saw this i thought that his was the Exact same sorry for the confusing post

Loving the game. There are some fairly major framerate issues though which isn’t so good (E6600@3GHz, 8800GTS should be ok!).

Just accidentally submitted a high score three times though lol! (Cupboard)

I have the same card and a similar processor and don’t see any issues. What problems are you having?

The game says it is getting over 2000FPS, but it stutters very badly. Sometimes it slows down to about the speed you get with a “slow mo” power up, other times it will work fine for a few seconds, then jerk, then work fine for a few seconds etc.

It is still enjoyable though!

In that case, first try closing any programs you have running that might be hogging the CPU or disk (eg file sharing or on demand tv programs for example). This should give you a smoother and much more enjoyable experience.

If that doesn’t work. Try pressing F4 to turn on V-synch mode. This will limit the framerate to your monitor’s refresh rate which may give you a more stable framerate if your CPU is having trouble keeping up with the graphics card.

Another option is to try pressing F8 to switch to fullscreen mode which dedicates the entire screen wholly to the game which can improve things if other programs are otherwise fighting for processing time (eg flash banners or videos).

Hi, I just wanna say that now PtitShyguy.sky is Blucky. ^^ I’m back here and I gonna beat everyone :P

I keep on getting this error message:

java.net.MalformatedURLException: unknown protocol: socket

for me works like a charm. Good job.

Hey Alex, really fun game you have, thanks for making it.

Getting a NPE when the game loads, now…

It doesn’t work under Linux. Thumbs down :(
Exception about openal

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