Welcome to Pop A Prof

Objective

Shoot colored balls at the ceiling trying to connect 3 balls of the same color. The balls will bounce off the sides but stick to the ceiling and each other. Everything hangs from the ceiling, so if you disconnect balls by popping others, the disconnected balls fall.

You are playing against other people, so anything you drop is sent to everyone else on the server.

When the balls extend below the line at the bottom, your game ends, and you restart in the current round after 10 seconds.

At the end of each round, the scores are displayed and reset, and everyone starts over.

Scoring

• +1 point of each shot.
• +10 points of each dropped ball.
• -100 points for a "Game Over".

Controls

• Left and Right Arrows to aim.
• Hold Shift while aiming to make the pointer move faster.
• Space to shoot.
• If the applet doesn't seem to respond to the controls, then click the mouse in the applet once to focus it.

Current Statistics

Here are the current scores for the people playing now.

Themes

You can choose from two different themes to begin:

• MU CS Professors
• Dilbert Characters (by Carlos Noguera)
• Ranma 1/2 (by LG Vasold)

Start the Server

If the server doesn't seem to be running, you can start it here.

Original Graphics

The original graphics are available here in Gimp 1.1.x XCF format.

Ball.java LoginWindow.java MessageListener.java Painter.java Player.java PopAProf.java PopClientRun.java PopServer.java PopServerRun.java PopTimer.java Rotater.java ServerData.java

John Flinchbaugh