# TwinEngine: a Little Big Adventure 1 engine rewrite

> TwinEngine rewrites the Little Big Adventure 1 engine in C to run the original game from its installation files. Its source covers rendering, scenes, actors, scripts and HQR resources; the project describes the engine as beta-stage.

- 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/LBALab/twin-e>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/LBALab/twin-e/blob/2e2de9be9f2bf477e426f5e88175847da4c43e6e/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/twinengine-lba1-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/twinengine-lba1-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/twinengine-lba1-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A Little Big Adventure 1 installation and the separately obtained midi_mi_win.hqr file.
- **Prerequisites:** SDL 1.2 and SDL_Mixerf to compile.
- **Limits:** Holomap and menu management remain incomplete.
- **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/LBALab/twin-e/blob/2e2de9be9f2bf477e426f5e88175847da4c43e6e/README.md>

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