# ZGloom: reimplementing the Amiga game Gloom

> ZGloom reimplements the Amiga first-person game Gloom, including Zombie Massacre. Windows builds need the Visual Studio 2013 runtime. Linux builds use SDL2, SDL2_mixer, and libXMP.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Swizpig/ZGloom>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Swizpig/ZGloom/blob/84326745e54d36c6531bfacdaf524f638e9d8349/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/zgloom/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/zgloom/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/zgloom/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- The original developers released Gloom at earok/GloomAmiga. Place the ZGloom binary in that directory. On Linux, compile with make.
- The README does not name a license for ZGloom. It says the licence of the included DeCrunchmania code is unknown.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Swizpig/ZGloom/blob/84326745e54d36c6531bfacdaf524f638e9d8349/README.md>

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