Earlier Works

Some of you may be interested in an earlier game I wrote, XDeathlord.  It's a top-view player-vs-player or player-vs-computer Tank/Hoovercraft/Land-Air-Mech/Helicopter combat game.

Implementation Notes

XEvil for UNIX/X was originally written by Steve Hardt (me) in C++ and straight Xlib. I used g++ and several versions of Silicon Graphics' C++ compiler. I developed XEvil mostly on Silicon Graphics machines, but I also did quite a bit of work on DEC 5000 and Sun 4 machines. To maximize portability I chose not to use any libraries for the user interface and, instead, to do it myself.

Mike Judge then ported the whole thing to a Win95/WinNT box using DirectDraw for the graphics.  We share the same code base for both the UNIX and Windows versions so that the two mostly stay in sync.

The inheritance diagram of classes in XEvil.

XEvil Tournaments

Results of the First and Second Annual XEvil tournaments.

Java XEvil

I was playing around with the idea of porting XEvil to Java.
Here's what I did.