Case study

BrightEyes: recreating Realms of Arkania games

BrightEyes reverse engineers MS-DOS-era games and aims to recreate them for modern platforms. It began with Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny, and the repository contains C, C++, assembly and build files.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C3 notes only

Stars: 20
Last commit: 2025-12-19
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code observed; no usable documentation found.
Scope: Notes
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

License: GPL-3.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{brighteyes-case,
  title = {{BrightEyes: recreating Realms of Arkania games}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Henne/BrightEyes}},
  url = {https://github.com/Henne/BrightEyes},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/brighteyes-case/}}
}

Plain text

BrightEyes: recreating Realms of Arkania games. https://github.com/Henne/BrightEyes (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/brighteyes-case/

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docs/source/index.rst GitHub · Henne/BrightEyes · Revision 541e757