About project

Darkside is turn-based strategy game created entirely in Java programming language. The idea comes from a great games Master of Orion, Master of Orion II and Fragile Allegiance. But Darkside is not mentioned to be a copy of these games in any sence. We just think that nowadays games are boring despite a nice graphics and effects. We enjoyed those old games for hundreds of hours - and that's all we want, create a game which will enjoy its players. I you think it's a good idea feel free to support us (for example make a link to this project from your web pages). If you would like to help us contact project leaders by a mail.

Please note that the actual Darkside version is in a development state.

Project Darkside is licensed under Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) License.

Get Darkside

If you want to try Darkside, you may download source codes for our Subversion server. Then compile them with jdk 6 (all thirdparty jars are included in the lib directory). For the programming we use Eclipse IDE, so it's configuration is also included on the server.

We will release compiled classes (so you will need only jre 6 to run the game) later - when Darkside became more complex.

Latest sources: https://svn.it-e.cz/svn/darkside/trunk/darkside/
Latest version (0.0.6 alfa): https://svn.it-e.cz/svn/darkside/tags/darkside-0.0.6-alfa/

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Next versions

We always try to release a new version at the end of each month. Our actual task is to move this project to Maven2 for better and faster development - maintenance.

Libraries we use

Substance (Look and feel)

Forms (Precise layout on forms)

BrowserLauncher2 (Browser launching)

One-JAR (Building into one executable jar)