Case study

NBlood: reverse-engineered ports of Build-engine games

NBlood provides reverse-engineered ports of Build-engine games using EDuke32 technology. Its NBlood, PCExhumed and Rednukem programs cover Blood, Exhumed or PowerSlave, and several Duke Nukem 3D-derived games; users supply the relevant game data.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 823
Last commit: 2026-09-14
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Provide the relevant game data, such as Blood 1.21 files, Exhumed or PowerSlave files, or the game files and ROM dump specified for Rednukem.
Limits: PCExhumed demo playback does not work yet.
License: The repository includes licence text under package/common.

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BibTeX

@misc{nblood-build-games-case,
  title = {{NBlood: reverse-engineered ports of Build-engine games}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/NBlood/NBlood}},
  url = {https://github.com/NBlood/NBlood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nblood-build-games-case/}}
}

Plain text

NBlood: reverse-engineered ports of Build-engine games. https://github.com/NBlood/NBlood (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nblood-build-games-case/

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README.md GitHub · NBlood/NBlood · Revision 497385d