Case study
Chariot: Age of Empires engine reimplementation
Chariot is an open-source effort to reimplement the engine of the original Age of Empires (1997). It aims to support ports and enhancements; the README describes it as a work in progress with asset-loading demonstrations, not a playable game.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
Requirements & limits
- Building requires Rust, a supported C/C++ compiler, and SDL2.
- Running requires an original Age of Empires CD for game data.
- The README reports that the project was not yet playable as of 2016-07-08.
- The README declares an MIT license.
About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · ChariotEngine/Chariot · Revision 26b98d0
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