julius VS Librelancer

Julius) - Caesar 3 clone. C, SDL2

Cesar 3 was also rewritten (https://github.com/bvschaik/julius), and besides the marvelous work from the author that has allowed fans of the original to experience it on modern platforms and further preserve it, it has also invigorated the community and spawned other efforts to further enhance the game.

It’s a shame that many companies do not agree with such an approach for dormant or abandonware properties.

Picked it up on GoG a while back and had a great time with it. Keep thinking about it every so often despite not finding the time to play through it again. Last year I decided to teach myself a specific game engine by replicating the game. I am not a game developer so I was in over my head and I stopped but I revisited the project earlier this month and managed to get basic map rendering working with the original tiles. The julius project together with citybuilding-tools and ZeusMapper were a great help to learn how to read the original asset files. I see all the Caesar 3 maps on this subreddit and would love to at least be able to generate those for Zeus + Poseidon one day even if I never get any actual game logic working. However just trying to figure out the logic for how cliff and rock formations are rendered is enough to make me think that will never happen. What I wouldn't give for a peek at the original source code.

Caesar III was recently reverse engineered, and is now receiving updates (project Julius on github) and new features (project Augustus on github).

There is Julius if you want to play it today https://github.com/bvschaik/julius

there is an open source copy of this game called Julius that fixes some aspect ratio issues of this game and is free to download (you need to have bought a legal copy of the game for it to work though). they also made a version called Augustus that adds a bunch of new things, like the monument system from later games ins the series. https://github.com/bvschaik/julius

have you tried either Augustus or Julius on the steam deck? I've been streaming it from my main PC to the deck and it works great, theres even a community profile for the controlls. havent tried getting it running on the deck itself yet though

Librelancer - Freelancer clone. C#, OpenGL

People should check out Librelancer if they get their hands in the game.

LibreLancer - Freelancer

[Librelancer]: https://github.com/Librelancer/Librelancer

The scale of Star Citizen is way larger than Freelancer, and the potential of the game is greater as well since you can do many things in the game. If one day Star Citizen releases and delivered what's promised, the game will last for a very long time. So for the fans, the wait maybe worth it.

(And hopefully it will be released before Elon Musk, NASA, ESA, CNSA or ROSCOSMOS etc give us the real-world version and make us actual 1-heart space-slaves LOL)

For the non-fans, however, the market is largely fulfilled by Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky etc.