Case study

Wolfenshine: reimplementing Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenshine is a cross-platform C# reimplementation of Wolfenstein 3D. It reads the maps, artwork, music, and sounds from the player's copy and renders them with a .NET engine, including a 320 by 200 software renderer and an enhanced lighting mode toggled with F2.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 73
Last commit: 2026-08-13
Language: C#
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Code, documentation, download and demo observed; a full-reconstruction candidate for manual Class 0 review.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Releases provide a Windows x64 installer and macOS builds for Apple silicon and Intel. The game accepts the free shareware data or a copy of the full six-episode game.
A source build needs the .NET 8 SDK and a clone with submodules.
License: MIT. NukedOPL3Sharp, used for AdLib and IMF audio, remains under the GNU LGPL 2.1.

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BibTeX

@misc{wolfenshine-case,
  title = {{Wolfenshine: reimplementing Wolfenstein 3D}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/deanthecoder/Wolfenshine}},
  url = {https://github.com/deanthecoder/Wolfenshine},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/wolfenshine-case/}}
}

Plain text

Wolfenshine: reimplementing Wolfenstein 3D. https://github.com/deanthecoder/Wolfenshine (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/wolfenshine-case/

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README.md GitHub · deanthecoder/Wolfenshine · Revision 13bc3a7