Case study

Ordoor: reimplementing the Strategy Engine for four games

Ordoor rebuilds the Strategy Engine used by Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate, Soldiers At War, Squad Leader, and Wages of War. Its format work and viewers cover maps, menus, graphics, sound, and video to varying degrees; gameplay mechanics remain unfinished.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A copy of each original game's data is required to play it.
Prerequisites: The Rust rewrite builds with cargo; the README lists libsdl3-0 as a runtime package on Debian.
Limits: Game mechanics are not implemented yet.
License: MIT License.

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BibTeX

@misc{ordoor-strategy-engine-case,
  title = {{Ordoor: reimplementing the Strategy Engine for four games}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://code.ur.gs/lupine/ordoor}},
  url = {https://code.ur.gs/lupine/ordoor},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ordoor-strategy-engine-case/}}
}

Plain text

Ordoor: reimplementing the Strategy Engine for four games. https://code.ur.gs/lupine/ordoor (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ordoor-strategy-engine-case/

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https://code.ur.gs/lupine/ordoor