Case study

Arkanum: reconstructing Arcanum archives and map sectors

Arkanum reconstructs Arcanum game data formats as part of a Python engine recreation. Its code reads and extracts DAT archives and parses map-sector structures including tiles, roofs, scripts and blocked-tile arrays, with field layouts recorded beside the parsers.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 13
Last commit: 2017-07-13
Language: Python

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Arcanum data files are needed to use the archive and map parsers.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{arkanum-arcanum-formats-case,
  title = {{Arkanum: reconstructing Arcanum archives and map sectors}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/vleon1/Arkanum}},
  url = {https://github.com/vleon1/Arkanum},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/arkanum-arcanum-formats-case/}}
}

Plain text

Arkanum: reconstructing Arcanum archives and map sectors. https://github.com/vleon1/Arkanum (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/arkanum-arcanum-formats-case/

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formats/map/sec.py GitHub · vleon1/Arkanum · Revision ad58733
formats/dat.py GitHub · vleon1/Arkanum · Revision ad58733
undat.py GitHub · vleon1/Arkanum · Revision ad58733
README.md GitHub · vleon1/Arkanum · Revision ad58733