# donut: reimplementing The Simpsons: Hit & Run

> donut is a C++ and OpenGL reimplementation of The Simpsons: Hit & Run. It needs the original game assets. git clone --recursive fetches the tree. Dependencies are SDL2, Bullet3, OpenAL Soft, and fmt, installed through vcpkg or found by CMake. Windows uses Visual Studio 2019. The Linux command is cmake -S . -B build with the vcpkg toolchain, then cmake --build build.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/plowteam/donut>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/plowteam/donut/blob/80c06fc3d350e6b27d415349002560f0570d9839/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/donut/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/donut/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/donut/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- The original game assets. CMake, and vcpkg or the system packages for SDL2, Bullet3, OpenAL Soft, and fmt.
- License: GPL version 3.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/plowteam/donut/blob/80c06fc3d350e6b27d415349002560f0570d9839/README.md>

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