Case study

Luna Purpura: reimplementing Purple Moon game formats and playback

Luna Purpura works toward a portable interpreter for 1990s Purple Moon games, including Rockett's New School, using the user's original CD-ROM files. Ruby format-research tools, C decoders and Lua bindings support a developing LÖVE-based player. The author describes the implementation as an early research-stage work.

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: 8
Last commit: 2026-04-27
Language: C
License (GitHub): BSD-2-Clause

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

Prerequisites: Original Purple Moon CD-ROM game files are the intended input for the interpreter.
Prerequisites: CMake is required to build; Lua 5.1 or LuaJIT headers and libraries are needed when Lua bindings are enabled.
Limits: The project remains in a research phase, with very few functions working.
License: BSD-2-Clause license.

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BibTeX

@misc{luna-purpura-case,
  title = {{Luna Purpura: reimplementing Purple Moon game formats and playback}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/dressupgeekout/lunapurpura}},
  url = {https://github.com/dressupgeekout/lunapurpura},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/luna-purpura-case/}}
}

Plain text

Luna Purpura: reimplementing Purple Moon game formats and playback. https://github.com/dressupgeekout/lunapurpura (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/luna-purpura-case/

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README.md GitHub · dressupgeekout/lunapurpura · Revision 74bba1e