Case study

OpenHoW: rebuilding Hogs of War from its game data

OpenHoW is an early-stage reimplementation of Hogs of War designed to use content extracted from the PC release. Its extractor copies and updates original assets, and its research documents describe game model, map and texture formats, including MAD, MTD, PMG and POG.

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

Stars: 170
Last commit: 2022-11-21
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0
Status: Archived

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Code, documentation, download and demo observed; a full-reconstruction candidate for manual Class 0 review.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A Hogs of War installation is required for the asset extractor.
Prerequisites: CMake, SDL2 and OpenAL Soft are required to compile.
Limits: The project is archived. Its README described it as early-stage and not yet basically playable in October 2019.
License: The repository’s LICENSE file contains GNU General Public License version 3.

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BibTeX

@misc{openhow-hogs-of-war-case,
  title = {{OpenHoW: rebuilding Hogs of War from its game data}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW}},
  url = {https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/openhow-hogs-of-war-case/}}
}

Plain text

OpenHoW: rebuilding Hogs of War from its game data. https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/openhow-hogs-of-war-case/

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README.md GitHub · hogsy/OpenHoW · Revision e61ec25
doc/README.md GitHub · hogsy/OpenHoW · Revision e61ec25
doc/file-formats/README.md GitHub · hogsy/OpenHoW · Revision e61ec25
LICENSE GitHub · hogsy/OpenHoW · Revision e61ec25