Case study

TurokEX: rebuilding PC Turok on the Kex engine

TurokEX reimplements the PC version of Turok on the Kex engine, with the game's actors, enemy AI, weapons, pickups, areas and HUD written as AngelScript classes. Its KPFGen converter reads the original CARTFILE.DAT and Turok.exe and packs their textures, fonts, sounds, models, levels and particle effects into a game.kpf archive. The engine side covers OpenGL rendering, collision and physics, OpenAL sound, a console, ENet networking and an SDL2 platform layer.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
Evidence class: C3 notes only

Stars: 48
Last commit: 2014-06-20
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code observed; no usable documentation found.
Scope: Notes
Checked: 2026-11-10

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: The original PC Turok CARTFILE.DAT and Turok.exe are required for KPFGen to build game.kpf.
Prerequisites: Microsoft Visual Studio solutions are provided for the engine and KPFGen, plus an Xcode project for the engine; SDL2, AngelScript and ENet sources and OpenAL headers and prebuilt libraries are bundled.
Limits: KPFGen runs on Windows only; its non-Windows entry point is an #error TODO stub.
License: Source files carry GNU General Public License version 2 or later headers; there is no licence file at the repository root.

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BibTeX

@misc{turokex-case,
  title = {{TurokEX: rebuilding PC Turok on the Kex engine}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX}},
  url = {https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX},
  urldate = {2026-11-09},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/turokex-case/}}
}

Plain text

TurokEX: rebuilding PC Turok on the Kex engine. https://github.com/svkaiser/TurokEX (accessed 2026-11-09). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/turokex-case/

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Primary sources

tools/KPFGen/src/main.c GitHub · svkaiser/TurokEX · Revision 90589b4
tools/KPFGen/src/textures.c GitHub · svkaiser/TurokEX · Revision 90589b4
kex2/turok/scripts/turokgame/components/weapons/turokWeaponChronoScepter.txt GitHub · svkaiser/TurokEX · Revision 90589b4
kex2/turok/framework/system.cpp GitHub · svkaiser/TurokEX · Revision 90589b4