jXBattle

• Game presentation
• Documentation
• Downloads
• On the web
• References
• Contact
• License

Welcome to the revival of a good old game !

News

• Jul. 17th 2016
New 1.0 version !
Features :
• Single executable for server and client,
• interface rework,
• gameplay : parachutes, guns,
• new keyboard shortcuts.


• Nov. 15th 2012
a reviews/articles section.


• Nov. 4th 2012
Published a new version with 'attack' key bug corrected. Have fun !


• Oct. 26th 2012
Web site has been reorganised and translated to english.


• Jan. 23rd 2012
First web site publication.

What does it look like ?

jXBattle is a multi player game that can be played on a local network or online. It is mainly a strategy and highly dynamic game, with simple graphics.

jXBattle is a rewrite of XBattle, originally for Unix (and X-Windows, hence the name) by Steve Lehar and Greg Lesher (released in 1991, old story...).

The source code is in Java/Swing, developed under Eclipse and Linux.

Here is a 2 players game session :

Downloads

To run the game, you must have previously installed Java.

Linux download
Windows download
Jar download
Sources download

• Linux executable


To run, you just need to double click on the downloaded file; but you have to make it executable :


• KDE

Right mouse button on downloaded file, "Properties", "Permissions" tab, click on "Is executable"





• Gnome

Right mouse button on downloaded file, "Properties", "Permissions" tab, click on "Allow executing file as a program"





• Command line (shell)

Open your favorite terminal. Go to the directory where you saved the downloaded file (jxbattle-1.0.sh). Type :

chmod +x jxbattle-1.0.sh

Then you can run it with ./jxbattle-1.0.sh


• Windows executable

After extracting the downloaded zip, simply double click on the exe file.


• JAR file

To run, you just need to double click on the downloaded files.
If it doesn't work, type in a command line :

java -jar jxbattle-1.0.jar


• Sources
  
  Archive of Java sources.
  To build :
  Extract the downloaded file (tar xf file), enter the extracted directory, run ant and then ./jxbattle

On the web

• Original version publication on linuxfr.org
• Small article refering to a review at Indie Game Magazine (disappeared since)
• Framasoft review

References

XBattle on everything2.com (english)
Extension of the game with computer players (english)
XBattle manual (english)
Students of Gdansk university have also rewritten the game (this time in polish, with a few english)
WinBattle, a Windows only version. The project seems to be dead, the first and last version were in 2003 (english)

A similar game, Europa, seems to have sunk into oblivion... Sorry, no ref.

Contact

Any question, remark, ... please contact me :

License

jXBattle is under GPLv3 license.