Case study

Ballanced: reimplementing the Ballance runtime

Ballanced is a source-level reimplementation of the Ballance runtime. It rebuilds the player, engine libraries, building blocks, and plugins into a Ballance-compatible directory layout. The documented runtime is the cross-platform SDL3 build on the sdl branch.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 49
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: CMake
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

Copy as Markdown View JSON Cite

Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

The player supplies a copy of Ballance and extracts the release into the game root. Windows runs Bin/Player.exe. Linux and macOS run Bin/Player.
Developers need CMake 3.25 or newer and SDL3. Windows uses Visual Studio 2022. Linux uses GCC or Clang with Ninja. macOS uses Apple Clang with Ninja.
The README names no license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{ballanced,
  title = {{Ballanced: reimplementing the Ballance runtime}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/doyaGu/Ballanced}},
  url = {https://github.com/doyaGu/Ballanced},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ballanced/}}
}

Plain text

Ballanced: reimplementing the Ballance runtime. https://github.com/doyaGu/Ballanced (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ballanced/

Useful? Star Awesome REA on GitHub2.4k

About this entry

The description was reviewed against primary sources.

Report an outdated entry Suggest a translation fix

Primary sources

README.md GitHub · doyaGu/Ballanced · Revision d26c0c0