Prior implementations available

The project description page (here) now has links to the three prior implementations we will use as starting points.

The Red Team and Blue Team implementations are both Java implementations. One of them was a bit more ambitious in using a quadtree data structure for hit detection. The other uses a simpler hit-detection method, but performed adequately anyway. You will need to choose between these as a starting point for the Java display code.

Keith Albin's thesis project produces a map in Adobe Flash. It has a richer, more convenient style-sheet language, which is described in his thesis (file dsl.pdf) in the "docs" directory. He refactored and reworked some of the code for processing input data, and I'm pretty sure you will want to use his code rather than either the Red or Blue team code as a starting point for the front end.