Case study

wage-engine: a World Builder adventure engine reimplementation

wage-engine reimplements the World Builder engine for classic Mac graphic text adventures in Java. It loads Mac resource data for scenes, characters, objects, sound, and scripts, and converts script bytes into readable commands.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 8
Last commit: 2017-04-22
Language: Java

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

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

World Builder game files are required as input.

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BibTeX

@misc{wage-world-builder-engine-case,
  title = {{wage-engine: a World Builder adventure engine reimplementation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/asvitkine/wage-engine}},
  url = {https://github.com/asvitkine/wage-engine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/wage-world-builder-engine-case/}}
}

Plain text

wage-engine: a World Builder adventure engine reimplementation. https://github.com/asvitkine/wage-engine (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/wage-world-builder-engine-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · asvitkine/wage-engine · Revision 0c267e3
engine/src/com/googlecode/wage_engine/engine/WorldLoader.java GitHub · asvitkine/wage-engine · Revision 0c267e3
engine/src/com/googlecode/wage_engine/engine/ScriptTextConverter.java GitHub · asvitkine/wage-engine · Revision 0c267e3