iortcw VS OpenGothic

https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw - iortcw (Civvie 11 used this in his review)

Return to Castle Wolfenstein can run mostly fine on modern hardware, but if it doesn't, there are two noteworthy source ports that can run the game: ioRTCW and RealRTCW. The former is simply gives the game more stability and tons of fixes while keeping the classic RTCW feel, whereas RealRTCW is a full overhaul of the base game, with higher-quality textures, new weapons, rebalanced gunplay, and other changes: https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw https://www.moddb.com/mods/realrtcw-realism-mod

Is this the right link? https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/releases

Link: GitHub - iortcw/iortcw: Merge of ioquake3 features and fixes into RTCW code bases

And remember to check out the two open source projects called ET: Legacy and iortcw.

In the end, it feels to me that providing opposition to hostile business models is the only way forwards, even if piracy is notoriously bad in the industry and there is ample competition, so not doing DRM and even having parts of your project be open source is probably financial suicide, as evidenced by the occasional thread on /r/gamedev about someone having their game be essentially stolen and it being uploaded elsewhere and someone else getting profits from their hard work.

Linked, because it's actually pretty interesting:

[1] - https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw

OpenGothic - Gothic 2 clone. C++, DX12, Vulkan, Metal

There is also OpenGothic. Which can be used standalone or through Luxtorpeda.

quests are implemented mostly in scripts. the window of the quest log is implemented here: https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic/blob/master/game/game/questlog.cpp. game scripts then create topics and set their status by calling these functions

Well the screenshot shows G2 and OG works good enough for G2 for such a image. And OG already runs at least on M1 so using it as a good base for a remake or console port might be an valid option.

What for? Better improve an existing project, like https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic

Kinda exists. There is OpenGothic. "The goal of this project is to make a feature complete Gothic game client compatible with the game and mods." There is also a team of russians who released an early build for Android (video), download is still up :)

https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic/issues/75 see last comment

Was looking at source implementations of old game engines and came across https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic . Was surprised to find it is implementing Ray Tracing on Metal https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic/issues/261 . This has to be a first.