Case study

FreeSci: a QuakeC reimplementation of Scientist Hunt

FreeSci reimplements Scientist Hunt, a Half-Life multiplayer mod about containing rapidly multiplying scientists, as a QuakeC game for FreeHL and the Nuclide SDK. The source covers client HUD and team menus, server rules for the hunt, stealth, slaughter, madness, invasion and fear modes, scientist monster behaviour, spawn-data parsing, player movement and entity definitions for the mod's weapons.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Building needs the Nuclide SDK with fteqw and fteqcc; playing needs a FreeHL installation with the Half-Life valve directory.
Limits: The README lists the Live in Fear game mode, arsenal file loading, some special CVARs and walking scientists in Stealth Hunting as still missing.
License: ISC License.

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BibTeX

@misc{freesci-scientist-hunt-case,
  title = {{FreeSci: a QuakeC reimplementation of Scientist Hunt}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://sourceforge.net/projects/freesci/}},
  url = {https://sourceforge.net/projects/freesci/},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/freesci-scientist-hunt-case/}}
}

Plain text

FreeSci: a QuakeC reimplementation of Scientist Hunt. https://sourceforge.net/projects/freesci/ (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/freesci-scientist-hunt-case/

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