# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW/blob/e61ec258dc0ddb8b37ce665d8809cf00968f952f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openhow-hogs-of-war-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openhow-hogs-of-war-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/openhow-hogs-of-war-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW/blob/e61ec258dc0ddb8b37ce665d8809cf00968f952f/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW/blob/e61ec258dc0ddb8b37ce665d8809cf00968f952f/doc/README.md>
3. <https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW/blob/e61ec258dc0ddb8b37ce665d8809cf00968f952f/doc/file-formats/README.md>
4. <https://github.com/hogsy/OpenHoW/blob/e61ec258dc0ddb8b37ce665d8809cf00968f952f/LICENSE>

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