With our second preview release, we added some actual gameplay (just a  little) and made great progress with game engine code.  Once we get a lot of art, a game will be born.

A lot of issues were fixed with compatibilty on older VMs (although we still desire 1.4.2 or later) and the game should actually now run on Linux.  So check it out!
To download the game:
http://www.untoldevils.com/downloads/UntoldEvils-All-v0.1.zip

Unfortunately the music may stutter on some systems to the extent that you will have to turn your volume off,  no idea how to fix this yet =/

Also, we are looking for dedicated artists that might be willing to spend time on the project.  Its a long shot on a coding forum, but never hurts to ask?

Anyways, check out the game and please leave some feedback if you could.
Thanks!

And for those that care, the server is back up and the game can be downloaded

I will agree that it looks promising.

Glad that you're also not satisfied with the art. I look forward to the more polished version.

Keep up the work.

Nice demo, pretty slow on my machine though (20 fps? assuming thats the fps in the lower right corner).  I liked the character gfx, but I like retro stuff like that.  I especially liked the way if you stood in front of one of the marching soldiers you could block his movement.  Are you using scripting?  If so what are using for scripting?

Yes, we are using scripting.  You can check it out if you navigate through the folders "[whever installed]/games/Untold Evils/scripting/areas/...".  It is a trigger based system that was devloped by me and right now has about 35 supported scripting calls.  Its syntax right now is a bit strict right now though =p.

As far as using webstart,  its a consideration, but so is eventually just having an installer so we can tack on the JRE that we want.  We also do not want to Jar/Zip up the games directory so we can encourage people messing around with the scripting/creating there own games