Top 6 command-and-conquer Open-Source Projects

OpenRA

256 14,118 9.6 C#

Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

Project mention: The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-24

Recently, my friends and I recreated our old LAN parties. Went up to a cabin in the woods, brought some cheap network switches, and had everyone install OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/, open red alert), and had a blast, even with everyone on laptops (mac/win). You can still do this in 2024 and it's worth it!

ra2

6 942 2.6 C#

A Red Alert 2 mod for the OpenRA game engine
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Thyme

11 546 8.6 C++

An open source re-implementation of Generals : Zero Hour written in C++.
Vanilla-Conquer

28 319 6.1 C++

Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.

Project mention: AI hit one of my obelisks while the deploy animation was going. Sent me ~1,000,00 power into the red. Deploying a GDI barracks fixed it later. Has anyone else seen this before? | /r/commandandconquer | 2023-12-09

Phobos

7 241 9.3 C++

Ares-compatible C&C Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge engine extension

Project mention: [Tiberian sun] Downloading mods | /r/commandandconquer | 2023-05-03

I downloaded Ion Shock and ran it through Bitdefender's scanning and it didn't get any hits. Just from my observation, it appears to be a mod sort of hacked together from the CnCNet client and seems to be packing the trifecta of exe patches in Kratos, Phobos, and (of course) Ares? That's not to say there couldn't be something nasty thrown into the mix for runtime but I'm a bit too lazy to get it actually running just to check that out.

GeneralsGamePatch

2 50 9.4 HTML

Community Patch to fix and improve original Generals Zero Hour 1.04

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).