Case study

Sourcehold: reimplementing the Stronghold game engine

Sourcehold is an early open-source engine for Stronghold, the 2001 castle game by Firefly Studios. It uses SDL2, OpenAL, FFmpeg, zlib blast, and the EnTT, filesystem, and cxxopts submodules. git submodule update fetches those. Windows builds use vcpkg for sdl2, ffmpeg, and openal-soft, then cmake --build build. macOS runs apple/build.sh macos. The iOS path builds only the simulator. --path points at the game data, or the files go in a data directory with binks, fx, gfx, maps, and stronghold.mlb.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 283
Last commit: 2024-07-08
Language: C++
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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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

Original Stronghold data in the layout above. CMake, and SDL2, OpenAL, and FFmpeg.
The README does not name a license.

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BibTeX

@misc{sourcehold,
  title = {{Sourcehold: reimplementing the Stronghold game engine}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/sourcehold/Sourcehold}},
  url = {https://github.com/sourcehold/Sourcehold},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/sourcehold/}}
}

Plain text

Sourcehold: reimplementing the Stronghold game engine. https://github.com/sourcehold/Sourcehold (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/sourcehold/

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README.md GitHub · sourcehold/Sourcehold · Revision 779cc32