Case study

OpenDrakan: reconstructing Drakan's Riot Engine

OpenDrakan reconstructs Riot Engine for Drakan: Order of the Flame on GNU/Linux. Its C++ project loads original game levels, includes an SRSC data extractor, and documents database structures and UDP/TCP network exchanges.

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

Stars: 64
Last commit: 2023-12-17
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A legal Drakan copy is required, along with zlib, GLM, Bullet Physics, CMake, OpenSceneGraph and OpenAL for the available renderer.
Limits: The replacement engine is early-stage and cannot yet play the full game.
License: GPL-3.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{opendrakan-case,
  title = {{OpenDrakan: reconstructing Drakan's Riot Engine}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Zalasus/opendrakan}},
  url = {https://github.com/Zalasus/opendrakan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/opendrakan-case/}}
}

Plain text

OpenDrakan: reconstructing Drakan's Riot Engine. https://github.com/Zalasus/opendrakan (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/opendrakan-case/

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README.md GitHub · Zalasus/opendrakan · Revision 6c0d499
doc/drakan_network_protocol.md GitHub · Zalasus/opendrakan · Revision 6c0d499