# OpenRED: recreating Guilty Gear -Strive-'s battle system

> OpenRED recreates Guilty Gear -Strive-'s battle system in an Unreal Engine project. Its C++ source covers battle states, events, objects and managers, with the aim of approximating the core logic.

- 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/WistfulHopes/OpenRED>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/WistfulHopes/OpenRED/blob/4b7d7f73152399132132977e362d5dd6e6525f3e/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openred-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/openred-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/openred-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Unreal Engine 5.3 Preview from the Epic Games launcher.
- **Limits:** The recreation is incomplete and may depart from binary behavior.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/WistfulHopes/OpenRED/blob/4b7d7f73152399132132977e362d5dd6e6525f3e/README.md>

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