REGoth now mostly playable (engine reimpl. for Gothic1&2)

[Julius]

Similar to OpenWM there is a project reimplementing the Gothic 1&2 RPG, which is in my humble opinion the much better game

See:
https://github.com/REGoth-project/REGoth

Latest video (obviously inspired by OpenMW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX92f8CrjrE

Works on Linux (+Windows, Mac if that's your thing) and Android.

[rogerdv]

Does it requires the original files? Quite hard to find those here.

[Julius]

Yes... I fear if you can't get them from places like Steam or GOG, you are probably left to download it from some illegal warez site.

[Duion]

I bought all Gothic titles on sale for 5 dollars or so.

[Julius]

Seems like they restarted the project:
https://github.com/REGoth-project/REGoth-bs/

Based on a game engine framework I did not know about:
https://www.bsframework.io/

It seems to part of or reuse or based on some components from this one?
https://github.com/bearishsun/bansheeengine

[drummyfish]

Interesting information, I would like to know what led them to changing the engine. I remember OpenMW went through a similar situation, they switched from Ogre3D to OpenSceneGraph because of some limitations of Ogre. Am also curious about the bs framework and how it is different from e.g. Godot.

[fluffrabbit]

Why does bs use a custom shading language? I hate that! Stick with standard GLSL or HLSL. SPIR-V compilers are supposed to make it possible to take your pick. More vendor lock-in bs, just like Godot. Also no legacy GL 3 support or WebGL renderer. Dude. No.