I spent most of the first night just trying to get my applet set up and writing some basic graphics/animation code.  Here’s the result:

So far the guy just walks in circles, there’s no interactivity at all.  Not too impressive, but I’m still hopeful about tomorrow.

You can “play” the game here, if you wish:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50224195/Alone_v1/alone.html