I downloaded my own file from your site midnight, and it works for me (except for the sound issue).

I think for me, safari resizes the applet to fit, because I just realized that HTML says something like 200x300 (which would explain your visual problem), so in the new upload, it is 500x800 just like the applet should be.

Post mortem.

I spent about the first 2:30 on what you see on the download page: the cart, background, and birds, all moving nicely. I also made a cool little boom effect that you don't see. I then frantically tried to add all of the gameplay, but the birds were going in the wrong direction, almost always missing the character's head, and I hadn't even decided how the guy was supposed to defend himself from the birds. (From the boom effect, I guess my subconcious had decided that he was going to make them explode.) I was left with no player interaction; the escape button exits and the f1 button was supposed to toggle fullscreen, but even that didn't work.

Yeah, I messed up. I was going to write a basic framework in the few days before the contest, one that would handle all the technical details of the graphics and collision detection and give me a decent GameObject base class. Instead, I played video games, went out with friends to a movie and stayed up too late, and spent too much time on the internet. I only spent a few hours here and there learning pygame and starting a framework; I should have spent a lot more time on it, especially because I've never used pygame before. I also threw out what I had been considering for gameplay before the theme was announced because I couldn't think of a way to make it fit with the theme, although I just thought of how I should have done it as I wrote this.

I should have based it on my code from the 1w1b2 contest, but I decided not to because it had some visual artifacts in the text. I shouldn't have worried about that for this contest. I would have done much better using that, a code base that I was already familiar with, instead of trying to teach myself pygame in a few hours here and there.

Any one else like to recommend me some games to play (apart from capn's commetns)? Ones that are actually a playable game for preference.

By the way, capn are you a judge or are those just your 'reviews'? Did you consider 8 entries a few or a lot - I wasn't sure what to expect after the suprise of 34 entries in the last 1W1B contest.