Java Paradroid

The original C64 Paradroid was a cool 'plan-view' robot battle game by Andrew Braybrook. The Spectrum conversion called Quazatron was good as well - it was 3d 'isometric' style graphics, and I played it for many hours. Anyhow... back to Paradroid.

Of course, quite a few people have done remakes of Paradroid. However the following one is of note because it's a full 3d game, it's written in Java and it's nice and responsive.

http://www.jpct.net/paradroidz/

Who says you can't write games in Java?

Additionally whilst looking around for links to put in this article, I came across a spectrum port of Quazatron written in Flash.

http://bitshifter.net.nz/flash-games/play-quazatron/

I've seen reasonable (i.e. fast, playable) isometric games in flash before, of course - this one is a really cool Dalek game (although all other BBC Doctor Who games suck):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/games/lastdalek/index.shtml

P.S. The original dev diary by the Andrew Braybrook is here. Nice to read from a legend who actually sounds human!