Case study

FreeTFC: reimplementing Team Fortress Classic

FreeTFC is a clean-room reimplementation of Team Fortress Classic in QuakeC. It is cloned into the Nuclide SDK as the directory tfc. The build is Nuclide's build_game.sh, or make inside tfc/src. Nuclide needs fteqw and fteqcc set up.

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: 27
Last commit: 2024-03-16
Language: C
License (GitHub): ISC

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 Nuclide SDK with fteqw and fteqcc. Clone this repository as tfc inside that SDK, then run ./build_game.sh or make in tfc/src.
License: ISC.

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BibTeX

@misc{freetfc,
  title = {{FreeTFC: reimplementing Team Fortress Classic}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/eukara/freetfc}},
  url = {https://github.com/eukara/freetfc},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/freetfc/}}
}

Plain text

FreeTFC: reimplementing Team Fortress Classic. https://github.com/eukara/freetfc (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/freetfc/

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README.md GitHub · eukara/freetfc · Revision 1152939