Case study

Castlekeep: a Stronghold 1 engine reimplementation

Castlekeep reimplements Stronghold 1 as a C++ game engine. Its code initializes a world, loads assets, generates terrain and renders it through an SDL2 platform layer and OpenGL renderer.

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

Stars: 16
Last commit: 2019-04-27
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

Prerequisites: CMake 3.9 or newer, SDL2, OpenGL, LibEpoxy and PNG support are required.
License: GPL-3.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{castlekeep-stronghold-case,
  title = {{Castlekeep: a Stronghold 1 engine reimplementation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/leidav/Castlekeep}},
  url = {https://github.com/leidav/Castlekeep},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/castlekeep-stronghold-case/}}
}

Plain text

Castlekeep: a Stronghold 1 engine reimplementation. https://github.com/leidav/Castlekeep (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/castlekeep-stronghold-case/

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README.md GitHub · leidav/Castlekeep · Revision aafceb6
src/game/game.cpp GitHub · leidav/Castlekeep · Revision aafceb6
CMakeLists.txt GitHub · leidav/Castlekeep · Revision aafceb6