Case study

Chronon: reimplementing Anachronox on Quake 2

Chronon is an open-source reimplementation of Anachronox on the Quake 2 engine. The README says the work follows public documentation and observation, and that nothing is playable yet.

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: 70
Last commit: 2025-06-21
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

The engine can initialise itself from an Anachronox game directory and load the game's DAT packages.
The README names no license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{chronon-case,
  title = {{Chronon: reimplementing Anachronox on Quake 2}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/hogsy/chronon}},
  url = {https://github.com/hogsy/chronon},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/chronon-case/}}
}

Plain text

Chronon: reimplementing Anachronox on Quake 2. https://github.com/hogsy/chronon (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/chronon-case/

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readme.md GitHub · hogsy/chronon · Revision a54d3de