# OpenPol: an early Polanie reimplementation

> OpenPol reimplements the Polish RTS Polanie in Rust and includes tools for reading and extracting its data formats. The current program plays intros, loads some game files, and displays the main menu and cursor; other gameplay remains unfinished.

- 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/jstasiak/openpol>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jstasiak/openpol/blob/9f74ed1aafc56134513096b08deb8e86888c2215/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openpol-polanie-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openpol-polanie-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/openpol-polanie-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Limits:** The current implementation is limited to intros, data loading, and the main menu.
- **License:** GPL-2.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jstasiak/openpol/blob/9f74ed1aafc56134513096b08deb8e86888c2215/README.md>

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