The community working to keep the classic Jagged Alliance 2 alive with the Stracciatella game engine have put out their first release in a few years.
With the Stracciatella project their aim is to provide good cross-platform support, improve stability, fix bugs and provide a stable platform for mod development. It’s a noble aim, especially when it’s an old game long left behind by the original teams and in this case the original developer and publisher no longer even exist.
Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella 0.17.0 went out on August 3 adding in:
Unlike other game engine reimplementations, this is not open source (more like “Source Available”?). It can’t be compared directly with the likes of OpenMW for Morrowind or OpenRA for Red Alert/Command & Conquer. It’s based on the original source code release by Strategy First Inc under their own Source Code License Agreement, and it also uses code from another developer who never put a license on their work so it’s all a bit murky.
You can see the official site here and GitHub here.
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