SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

Plus details of a C&C Remaster with 70% off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezpzl6T6duY

Announcement of Electronic Arts
GitHub page

The source code of these versions is available with GPL license:
- C&C Tiberian dawn
- C&C Red Alert
- C&C Renegade
- C&C Generals
- C&C Remastered collection
- Steam Workshop modding support

Yes I know. If you actually watched the video it tells you that! 

That is cool. Watched the video. Could be worth taking a look at how they did some things in those games.

lol yes I thought of you when I saw it Matty. 

That's gonna take some coffees while wrapping ones head around the code for that size of project!

Good on them though for letting people have a peek.

Dabz

Interesting things they did ... storing all their objects in a hash-map and looking things up by ID ... I always avoided a "gameobject-hashmap" because of the lookup time when thousand of objects exist in the map assumed too high to me. Seems I could have simplified a lot of stuff then.

And yes, thought of Matty too.


bye
Ron

I never got into the later games in the series. I seem to remember Tiberium Sun being my last C&C game that I bought and played the hell out of. It got a bit bloated after that and I couldn't keep up with the younger players and their strategies. I have very fond memories of the original game that started this whole series off - Dune 2 on the Amiga. I spent so much time playing that back in the day. Once you worked out how the AI played you could play at the kind of pace that suited me - especially when you had to be careful trying to infiltrate enemy bases. As long as you stopped your rocket units enough squares away then they could shoot down the missile launcher defences at their base without them retaliating. 

And the sandworms coming up to randomly eat units was so random

Playing it now, the interface just feels fiddly, as they've improved control systems massively since those early 90's games. But the nostalgia....

Youtube algorithm recommended this to me.