Case study

Open SoM Runtime: rebuilding the Sword of Moonlight runtime

Open SoM Runtime recreates Sword of Moonlight's game runtime in Unity, including content loading, event parsing, menus and explorable maps. The author reports partial event support and describes compatibility limits for Dark Destiny, SoM Ex games and some video codecs.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 1
Last commit: 2026-11-01
Language: C#
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Unity project with compiled Reign game data included for development; other games require their content in the documented StreamingAssets folder structure.
Limits: Event parsing is partial, and collision currently has no player response.
Limits: Dark Destiny and SoM Ex games do not load correctly; some video sequences depend on codec support.
License: MIT license for the repository code.

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BibTeX

@misc{open-som-runtime-case,
  title = {{Open SoM Runtime: rebuilding the Sword of Moonlight runtime}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Sword-of-Moonlight/OpenSoMRuntime}},
  url = {https://github.com/Sword-of-Moonlight/OpenSoMRuntime},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/open-som-runtime-case/}}
}

Plain text

Open SoM Runtime: rebuilding the Sword of Moonlight runtime. https://github.com/Sword-of-Moonlight/OpenSoMRuntime (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/open-som-runtime-case/

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README.md GitHub · Sword-of-Moonlight/OpenSoMRuntime · Revision 527abdc