Runesword 2 CRPG Gets Open Source Release 16
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that CrossCut Games has released the source code and a fully unlocked playable version of RuneSword 2, a "[Windows based] CRPG designed to appeal to 'pen and paper' role-players. The game comes with two full-length adventures, a number of smaller adventures, and a completely flexible construction set." There's more information over at the CrossCut Games forums for the game, where it's noted that the developers "had to remove the music files", but "all the source code (and the unlocked version of RS2)" are currently available, with "another few hundred meg of 'unused' graphics, sound and many other tid bits" that may be released in the future.
Great to see more open sourced classic games (Score:5, Interesting)
Classic? (Score:3, Informative)
Runesword 2 is a game construction kit, released on September 4th, 2001. I suppose the original Runesword is slightly more "classic" having been released on February 6th, 2000.
http://www.runesword.com/rs2.html [runesword.com]
Not so magical, really.
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Before anybody gets any ideas of a Linux port... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Before anybody gets any ideas of a Linux port.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Unfortunately, VB is just about the worst choice for this scenario. C++ can be wrapped a bajillion different ways (my personal choice would be to migrate it into Python, but there are a wide variety of alternate good solutions too). Maybe, maybe, the game could be wrapped as a (gigantic) COM control and driven from a decent language, slowly migrating out the logic into the alternate language, but I don't have enough experience to know if this is feasible.
Still, it isn't hopeless; bare minimum, the pieces that WINE are choking on could probably be made such that WINE stops choking on them.
Re:Before anybody gets any ideas of a Linux port.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Having source code for something can really give the Wine coders something to sink their teeth into. I recently saw that they now have the (windows version of) AbiWord running under Wine, and that pointed up a number of fairly minor bugs.
Wine is actually getting surprisingly good nowadays. My wife still runs Photoshop, but with wine I have been able to migrate her over to a Linux desktop. Likewise I used it for a mapping application recently in a linux desktop rollout project. I have one last Windows development environment that I still need to use for a couple of clients (Progress 4GL), but Wine does that job for me too now.
Re:Before anybody gets any ideas of a Linux port.. (Score:2)
Yet another reason not to use VB for anything you're likely to update in the future.
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