# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Henne/BrightEyes>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Henne/BrightEyes/blob/541e757fa8c5fc45e36d66567a0c7df7221a1d26/docs/source/index.rst>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/brighteyes-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/brighteyes-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/brighteyes-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **License:** GPL-3.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Henne/BrightEyes/blob/541e757fa8c5fc45e36d66567a0c7df7221a1d26/docs/source/index.rst>

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