# 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.

- 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/eukara/freetfc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/eukara/freetfc/blob/1152939d934726b261b2f3ce74692ffc707c4e36/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/freetfc/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/freetfc/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/freetfc/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/eukara/freetfc/blob/1152939d934726b261b2f3ce74692ffc707c4e36/README.md>

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