EA Games has just released The Command & Conquer Remastered Collection on Steam, described by Hot Hardware as two of the ’90s-era real-time strategy games that “were incredibly popular in their day and are still popular with retro gamers today…”
“Gamers can change between legacy and remastered 4K graphics in real-time when playing solo mode,” they note, adding that “deep support for mods via the Steam Workshop is baked in.”
But UnknownSoldier (Slashdot user #67,820) also writes
EA has released the source code for two of their classic real-time strategy games in the Command and Conquer series: CnC: Red Alert and CnC: Tiberian Dawn on GitHub.
Interesting trivia:
– Source code is around 5 MB.
– There are no art of sound assets.
– Filenames are all in capitals. This makes it easy to tell what was added for the Remaster.
– The path finding is NOT using the usual A* algorithm but the “Crash and Turn” algorithm.
– Searching the source for PETROGLYPH_EXAMPLE_MOD shows an example of how to add a mod.
And 25 years after the release of Tiberian Dawn, the remastering team even tracked down the original voice for its in-game computer system EVA — to create new high-definition recordings.
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