Hav­ing spent far too many hours play­ing Minesweeper on Win­dows machines, I fig­ured I’d write a game that bears some resem­blance to actual mine-clearing.

Your vehi­cle is a remote-controlled mine­hunter, with var­i­ous attach­ments and var­i­ous ships to pro­tect depend­ing on the dif­fi­culty level you’re play­ing on. Head to Help -> How to Play… for a three-minute tuto­r­ial that explains every­thing you need to know.

Screen­shot

Mine­hunter Screen­shot (click to enlarge)

Down­loads

Down­load ver­sion 0.4.0 (89KB JAR)

Get the source code from GitHub

Require­ments

Mine­hunter requires the Java 6 run­time envi­ron­ment, which you prob­a­bly have already. If not, you can get it from here. Once that’s installed, just double-click on the down­loaded JAR file and it should run.

Bugs and Features

As far as I’m aware there aren’t any bugs in this game, but it never really got tidied up and given a nice inter­face so it’s not the greatest-looking thing in the world.

Issues with this appli­ca­tion are tracked on my Man­tis server, which is open to any­one to sign up, report bugs and request fea­tures. Please report any issues you find!