Posted March 25, 2020
Hi there,
I've loved Chaos Gate ever since I first played it in 2000; I've still got the original CD! Along with a GOG copy, since I don't have a CD drive any more...
Like others, I've struggled to get it playing reliably on my machine, so for the past couple of years I've been working on a game engine recreation. It beats maintaining a windows XP VM long-term, or so I thought at the start.
I've hit some major milestones over the past couple of weeks - although no gameplay yet - so I figured the time had some to share it more widely. I can't post links here, but if you're interested in the project, it's called "ordoor". Happy to chat about it here on the way to getting it to 100% functionality, accept contributions, etc. All the code is MIT-licensed.
Things done up to today include the ability to display terrain maps (almost) pixel-perfectly, a good slice of the UI functionality, and some sound (with a pre-processing step). Mostly it's a labour of investigating file formats ,then writing code that uses said files.
It's written in Go, which isn't the best choice, but also not the worst, probably ;). I'm developing it on Linux, but the libraries are all cross-platform so one hopes it'd compile fine on Windows and Mac as well.
As a game engine recreation, it needs a copy of the original game data to *do* anything - fortunately, it's only a couple of quid on GOG!
I've loved Chaos Gate ever since I first played it in 2000; I've still got the original CD! Along with a GOG copy, since I don't have a CD drive any more...
Like others, I've struggled to get it playing reliably on my machine, so for the past couple of years I've been working on a game engine recreation. It beats maintaining a windows XP VM long-term, or so I thought at the start.
I've hit some major milestones over the past couple of weeks - although no gameplay yet - so I figured the time had some to share it more widely. I can't post links here, but if you're interested in the project, it's called "ordoor". Happy to chat about it here on the way to getting it to 100% functionality, accept contributions, etc. All the code is MIT-licensed.
Things done up to today include the ability to display terrain maps (almost) pixel-perfectly, a good slice of the UI functionality, and some sound (with a pre-processing step). Mostly it's a labour of investigating file formats ,then writing code that uses said files.
It's written in Go, which isn't the best choice, but also not the worst, probably ;). I'm developing it on Linux, but the libraries are all cross-platform so one hopes it'd compile fine on Windows and Mac as well.
As a game engine recreation, it needs a copy of the original game data to *do* anything - fortunately, it's only a couple of quid on GOG!
Post edited March 25, 2020 by lupine_85
