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OpenXcom => Offtopic => Topic started by: luciderous on May 16, 2010, 10:13:32 am

Title: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: luciderous on May 16, 2010, 10:13:32 am: I'm not a programmer myself, but there are some good old games that I dreamed somebody would have recreated an opensource engine for. X-COM series (EU and TFTD) are my primary concern, yet it seems that I'm kinda Microprose fanboy, so my other favorites are Master of Magic and Master of Orion 2 titles. Of course I would not dare to ask SupSuper to undertake such an endeavour, but it would be nice to know that there are people who share my passion for those old goodies ;)
Title: Re: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: michal on May 16, 2010, 08:24:08 pm: You can find more such projects here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_engine_recreation

And here:
https://rewiki.regengedanken.de/wiki/Links_to_engine_reimplementations

There is project for master of orion 2 which unfortunately looks dead:
https://toom.sourceforge.net/home/
Title: Re: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: luciderous on May 16, 2010, 09:20:44 pm: I knew about those links - that's why I'm following all such trends, but thank you anyway :)
It's really a shame that MoO2 engine recreation went silent after all - I had so much hope for it :'(
The same goes to all Master of Magic recreation attempts. None of those projects survived past "initial enthusiasm" phase. OpenXcom seems to be my last best hope remaining.
Title: Re: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: SupSuper on May 19, 2010, 12:07:41 pm: Games like that are a bitch to reproduce I imagine, although I am particularly fond of MOM. :D
Title: Re: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: luciderous on May 19, 2010, 11:49:23 pm: Quote from: SupSuper on May 19, 2010, 12:07:41 pm
Games like that are a bitch to reproduce I imagine, although I am particularly fond of MOM. :D
Yeah, me too ;)
When I become more proficient in programming, and if by that time there are no ongoing MoM recreation projects - I am going to start one myself. Hopefully 8)
Title: Re: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: michal on July 24, 2010, 08:02:42 am: Open source clone of Master of Orion 2:

https://openmoo2.org/en/
Title: Re: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: luciderous on July 24, 2010, 08:23:31 am: Quote from: michal on July 24, 2010, 08:02:42 am
Open source clone of Master of Orion 2:

https://openmoo2.org/en/
Yeah, I know - I've added the relevant info to the Wikipedia last week :D
Title: Re: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: michal on July 25, 2010, 07:50:33 am: LOL

I've read about it on wikipedia yesterday and thought that you may be interested :P
Title: Re: Other games worthy of engine recreation
Post by: pmprog on July 25, 2010, 08:43:28 pm: I'm half tempted to have a go at Covert Action
https://www.abandonia.com/en/games/139/Covert+Action.html

Watched several people do "Let's Play"s of them, got me playing it a bit, but the controls are sometimes quite awkward, and it would benefit from a built in notepad to jot things on