Spring RTS game engine Alternatives

Spring RTS game engine reviews and mentions

• Lua Is So Underrated
  27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2024

  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.

• Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023

  Seems the support would be a realistic feature, though, because it's based on https://springrts.com/ that does support MacOS X.

• Alternative Game Engines for Marooned Unity Developers
  8 projects | /r/gamedev | 22 Sep 2023

  springrts: Designed for 3D rts games. May be worth looking into if that's what you're making. The site is kind of lack luster so I didn't do too much digging around.

• OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2023

  ...or Total Annihilation Spring, nowadays known as Spring RTS: https://springrts.com/

• Here’s how a train conductors’ view looks at night
  2 projects | /r/oddlyterrifying | 1 May 2023
• What is your favorite open source Linux game? Mine is Wideland (Best way to describe is the way Settlers 3 should have been)
  12 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 25 Apr 2023

  My current favorite is Beyond All Reason. Before BAR, my favorite was Zero-K. Both BAR and zk use the same game engine, SpringRTS. BAR and zk are very similar to one another, and they're successors for Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander.

• Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023

  Obligatory mention of another open source RTS engine (lineage tracing back to the original Total Annihilation): https://springrts.com/

• Troubles Installing Spring Engine. This is what downloads when I try. This folder leads to nothing. Any ideas?
  1 project | /r/opensourcegames | 10 Feb 2023

  Non-OSS Engine?

• What older video game holds a special place in your heart?
  1 project | /r/AskReddit | 3 Feb 2023

  Total Annihilation for sure, the spiritual successor Supreme Commander is great but a bit too different for me. There's an open source recreation that's a bit rough to learn at first, but it's my favorite game of all time called Spring RTS. https://springrts.com/

• Game Engine Development.
  5 projects | /r/gamedev | 2 Jan 2023

  The other thing is that if you're going to make an engine focused on rts games, you should probably study an existing RTS-focused engine. For example, here's the source code for Spring. Learn what it does, why, and how. You might decide this is good enough for what you want to do. You might decide this is pretty close, and you'll only want to extend it rather than start from scratch. You might decide to still start from scratch, but at least you learned something about requirements/ methods/ etc.

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