Runesword 2 CRPG Gets Open Source Release

Posted by simoniker on Sunday April 18, 2004 @11:21AM from the free-as-in-free dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that CrossCut Games has released the source code and a fully unlocked playable version of RuneSword 2, a "[Windows based] CRPG designed to appeal to 'pen and paper' role-players. The game comes with two full-length adventures, a number of smaller adventures, and a completely flexible construction set." There's more information over at the CrossCut Games forums for the game, where it's noted that the developers "had to remove the music files", but "all the source code (and the unlocked version of RS2)" are currently available, with "another few hundred meg of 'unused' graphics, sound and many other tid bits" that may be released in the future.

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Great to see more open sourced classic games by Kiriwas · 2004-04-18 11:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

Games like this filled my time endlessly and its great to see sources being released more often. It's like magicians giving away secrets after 50 years, it usually leads to more quality magic shows. In the same way, as novice programmers and tinkerers get to see techniques used in these games, I feel that the quality of games in general will go up. Either that or we'll just go back to playing the classics! For FREE!