Digital Arts (EA) is releasing the supply code for 4 Command & Conquer titles beneath the open supply GPL license. The unique Command & Conquer (since subtitled Tiberian Daybreak) is joined by Purple Alert, Renegade, and Generals, the code for all of which might now be discovered on EA’s GitHub page. Solely the code has been open sourced, not the video games’ property and cinematics, however it is going to assist modders and the sport restoration neighborhood maintain the video games playable.
This isn’t truly a primary for EA. Again in 2020 the corporate released the source code for its Command & Conquer Remastered Assortment, made up of Tiberian Daybreak and Purple Alert. That code had already been tailored for the remaster’s engine nonetheless, whereas the brand new releases are the “absolutely recovered supply code” of the sequence’ first two video games, according to Luke “CCHyper” Feenan, a Command & Conquer neighborhood member who proposed and orchestrated the discharge along with EA.
Renegade and Generals, in the meantime, have been launched beneath an open supply license for the primary time. Renegade is a 2002 first- and third-person shooter set within the franchise’s Tiberium universe, whereas Generals is a 2003 technique sport that eschewed the Tiberium and Purple Alert worlds for a near-future setting depicting a battle between the USA, China, and the fictional International Liberation Military. Its growth Zero Hour can also be included within the open supply launch.
Alongside the open sourcing, EA has additionally opened Steam Workshop assist, and launched a ‘Modding Support’ pack that features the supply XML, schema, script, shader and map information, for all of the video games that use the SAGE engine:
That transfer ought to make it simpler to create mods and maps for the video games, and to share a few of these creations via Steam. To cap off the announcement, EA launched a 35-minute video of archival gameplay footage from the early improvement of Renegade and Generals: