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Top 5 C++ real-time-strategy Projects
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Spring RTS game engine
A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/ (by spring)
In the Spring/Recoil RTS game engine[1] we adapted Lua to have deterministic execution allowing synchronous multiplayer simulation. In addition we relatively easily implemented a precise[2] serialization of the Lua VM, allowing us to support save/load for games with no code required from their side.
In other languages these would require much more effort.
[1] https://github.com/spring/spring or https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring (yay for forks!)
[2] Preserving the order of iteration on items in a hash table.
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InfluxDB
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warzone2100
Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+
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Vanilla-Conquer
Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn's Linux port added to Luxtorpeda for Steam
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Lest We Forget, the EA Cemetery
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Vanilla Conquer Development Builds Now Available
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Index
What are some of the best open-source real-time-strategy projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Spring RTS game engine | 3,670 |
| 2 | warzone2100 | 3,398 |
| 3 | Unvanquished | 1,029 |
| 4 | Thyme | 666 |
| 5 | Vanilla-Conquer | 416 |
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