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What is Evidyon?

Evidyon is a real-time online 3d fantasy video game completed in 2010, programmed over several years by Karl Gluck. The game features fast-paced combat, player guilds, hundreds of items/spells and a complete world-editing tool. Custom 3d content by Erich Gluck.

Upon release to GitHub, Evidyon is now available under the MIT license.

Features

• Complete game editor that can change maps, particle effects, monsters, spell/item attributes and more
• Lots of custom-made content (that is free for you to use!)
• Avatars can be created in 5 races and 4 different classes
• More than 150 items and dozens of spells
• Players can form guilds and pvp combat is encouraged

Interesting Stuff for Programmers

• Created using only fixed-function pipeline as it targeted old hardware as of 2010. This also makes it easier to understand.
• A complete, native Direct3D+Windows GUI implementation. It is way easier to use and has more features than any other solution I've found.
• Custom 3d animation file format that includes a converter from the dreaded .X format. Far easier to understand than .X and optimized for rendering with low resource requirements.
• Highly object-oriented and encapsulated. Very strong and consistent use of design patterns.
• Playable in real-time even when latency is as high as 300 ms thanks to finely-tuned prediction algorithms
• Thorough line-by-line documentation.