Really do love seeing games be revived with open source projects like this. SS1 is one of my top ten games, so getting a chance to hack on this engine has been really fun and it's been quite the puzzle box keeping me up late at night trying to revive it. Some background: after finishing up Delver I was planning on taking a bit of a break from game development, but then Night Dive went and released some source code for System Shock 1 that someone dug up. It has some big missing features to dig up though like getting it to play the movies and audiologs from the original DOS version of the game, since the source code that was released was for PowerPC Macs. It's at the point now where it runs the game pretty well, even with some basic sound support.

It's going to be in the style of Chocolate Doom - a modern cross platform source port of the original game but with some new features added like modding support and better controls, eventually. Lately I've been working on a cross platform source port of System Shock 1 that I'm calling Shockolate: I've been silently following it, however, Cuddigan recently emailed in about it as it seems it's further along than I had realised.

īased on the Mac PowerPC source code release from Night Dive Studios, developer Chad Cuddigan has been hacking away at the code to enable it to run on more modern systems (like Linux). Not only is it trash, but it would also be wildly out of place inside the new cautious atmosphere of the new game. Every track sounds like a toddler mindlessly mashing a midi of farts.

Fancy playing System Shock 1 using an open source game engine that's cross-platform? Give me some Shockolate. 1 Macro Feb 21 1:13pm The original music is trash and shouldn't be included.

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