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OpenRA is an open-source game engine designed for the development and modernization of real-time strategy titles. It provides a modular framework that allows developers to build standalone games or total conversion modifications by leveraging a trait-based entity composition system. The engine is built to support both the preservation of classic strategy games and the creation of new experiences, offering cross-platform compatibility and a flexible architecture for defining game rules and unit behaviors. The engine distinguishes itself through a configuration-driven approach where game logic,
Openage is an open-source game engine designed to execute real-time strategy games. It provides the core logic, networking, and rendering infrastructure necessary to recreate classic strategy mechanics across multiple operating systems. The engine utilizes a deterministic lockstep simulation and a client-server architecture to maintain synchronized game states across participants. It distinguishes itself through a data-driven configuration system that allows for extensive game modding, enabling users to adjust mechanics and visual elements by editing human-readable files without requiring sou
Warzone 2100 is an open-source real-time strategy game engine focused on tactical combat and base building. It operates as a real-time strategy game engine utilizing a data-driven asset pipeline and providing cross-platform support. The project features a modular unit design system that uses a technology tree to construct combat entities by combining chassis, propulsion, and weapon components. It includes a lockstep multiplayer network engine to synchronize game state across distributed clients for competitive matches, as well as a JavaScript game scripting framework for implementing custom l
Beyond-All-Reason is a real-time strategy game and 3D military simulation focused on large-scale tactical combat, base building, and resource management. It functions as a competitive multiplayer platform featuring ranked lobbies and skill-based matchmaking. The project includes a custom map editor for designing unique game levels and environments through structural and thematic configuration. The simulation covers military-industrial economy management, including resource extraction and asset recovery. Tactical gameplay involves commanding army formations, using radar for enemy unit detecti
This is the GitHub home of Race Into Space, the computer version of the Liftoff! board game by Fritz Bronner. It was developed by Strategic Visions and published by Interplay as a disk-based game in 1993 and a CD-ROM in 1994. It was open-sourced in 2005 and a number of improvements have been made over the original.
OpenTTD is an open-source game engine and transport simulation game. It provides an isometric sandbox environment for building and managing complex logistics and transport networks. The project functions as a multiplayer simulation sandbox where users can build infrastructure cooperatively or competitively in a shared virtual world. The platform is designed as a moddable simulation system that supports external assets, graphics, and gameplay modifications. It includes mechanisms for downloading and integrating add-on content and utilizes a plugin-based system to extend game mechanics beyond t
MegaGlest real-time strategy game engine (cross-platform, 3-d)
OpenRCT2 is an open-source reimplementation of a classic amusement park management simulation engine. It functions as a cross-platform engine that modernizes the original game, enabling it to run on contemporary operating systems while maintaining full compatibility with legacy assets and data files. The project distinguishes itself by providing a comprehensive multiplayer simulation server that supports cooperative, real-time park management and construction across multiple connected clients. It utilizes a deterministic lockstep networking model and a centralized action-based validation syst
Open source RTS game running on the Spring/Recoil engine
CorsixTH is an open-source game clone and hospital management simulation game. It functions as a reproduction of a classic management title where players coordinate staff and treat patients to manage a medical facility. The project includes a level editor tool for designing original maps and campaigns. It also features a customizable input system that allows users to map game hotkeys and personalize control schemes. The simulation supports game localization to translate interface text and dialogue into multiple languages.
Shattered Paradise's main repository and installation Kit.
Romanov's Vengeance is an OpenRA mod based on Red Alert 2.
This repository contains Swarm Assault remake project based on the OpenRA Mod SDK.
An Open Source Pixelart Science-Fiction Real-Time-Strategy game
This repository contains the original source code for a classic real-time strategy game, serving as a legacy game engine implementation for managing units, maps, and combat mechanics in a military strategy setting. It functions as a real-time strategy game source code archive intended for preservation and technical study. The codebase acts as a game modification base, allowing developers to create custom content and modifications using the original source. It provides a foundation for retro game modding and software archeology to analyze how historical game mechanics were programmed. The pro
Mindcraft is a framework for connecting large language models to game clients to create autonomous characters that communicate and perform actions within a simulated environment. It functions as an orchestrator for bots, utilizing a system that bridges high-level AI instructions with low-level game protocol packets to enable the execution of in-game tasks. The system uses retrieval-augmented generation to select relevant conversation history and code examples via embedding-based context retrieval. It supports the development of specific AI personas through profile configurations and facilitat
Cataclysm-DDA is an open-world survival game and turn-based roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. It functions as a simulation where players manage resources, engage in combat, and handle character progression in an environment where time only advances when the player takes an action. The project includes a procedural world generator that creates randomized, persistent environments and city layouts, ensuring unique maps for every new game session. The simulation covers tactical movement and resource management through turn-based strategy gameplay. It also provides options for personali
OpenCiv3 (formerly known by the codename "C7") is an open-source, mod-oriented remake of Civilization III by the fan community built with Godot and C#, with capabilities inspired by other 4X games and lessons learned in Civ3 modding. We aim to create a new game that looks and plays like Civ3 but…
An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C