Open Empires
This is a custom game engine for Age of Empires II written in C99 and SDL2 built for fast network play.
Data, art, and sound files are not supplied - to play Open Empires you must own the original boxed-set version of Age of Empires II and The Conquerors.
Dependencies
sdl2
sdl2_ttf
sdl2_net
Building
git clone https://github.com/glouw/openempires
cd openempires
make -C src
Running
First, start the server.
./openempires --server
Second, start the client. Point the path flag to the installation's data folder.
./openempires --path "/path/to/data/folder"
Development Blog (on hiatus)
http://glouw.com/2019/04/10/Reverse-Engineering-Age-of-Empires-2-Part-0.html
Credits
Thanks to:
- SFTech OpenAge team for their fantastic reverse engineering documentation (https://github.com/SFTtech/openage)
- Ensemble Studios for many gifted childhood memories
- Forgotten Empires for keeping the spirit of Age of Empires II alive
Dedicated to Ondrej who I met walking across England as he hiked from Scotland to Spain. For the Josh Master. Volare, my friend.