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OpenXcom => Open Feedback => Topic started by: kkolyan on March 23, 2020, 03:16:49 am

Title: How OpenXCom developed?
Post by: kkolyan on March 23, 2020, 03:16:49 am

Hi!
How did you do it? Just replicated behavior of original game as a black box? Decompiled original and then refactored and enhanced?

Title: Re: How OpenXCom developed?
Post by: SupSuper on March 23, 2020, 05:07:51 am

Both.

Title: Re: How OpenXCom developed?
Post by: kkolyan on March 23, 2020, 06:09:27 am

Behavior replication for the common things and decompilation for formulas and another non-obvious mechanic details? Or maybe initial decompilation and then a lot of creative work?
I'm interesting, because I hope to make something similar with another game and just wander about how such things did.

Title: Re: How OpenXCom developed?
Post by: Meridian on March 23, 2020, 10:07:11 am

Quote from: kkolyan on March 23, 2020, 06:09:27 am

Behavior replication for the common things and decompilation for formulas and another non-obvious mechanic details?

this

Title: Re: How OpenXCom developed?
Post by: kkolyan on March 23, 2020, 11:21:26 am

thx!

Title: Re: How OpenXCom developed?
Post by: SupSuper on March 23, 2020, 05:46:26 pm

This might be of interest to you: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/HOWTO-Reverse_Engineering

Title: Re: How OpenXCom developed?
Post by: DrakenJ35 on March 31, 2020, 06:51:55 pm

Thanks for the explanations, that's quite interesting to hear about how this was all developed! I guess it's the same for many old games that were brought back to life by fans?

Title: Re: How OpenXCom developed?
Post by: Yankes on March 31, 2020, 09:32:07 pm

https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,6239.0.html
One forum member single handedly decompiled and recreated source code of Master Of Orion 1