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		EamonnMR on Dec 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would... Mostly game engines I enjoyed. The Escape Velocity Engine for one, though clones exist. The Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2 engine is this crazy mix of voxels, dynamic lighting, height-mapped terrain all in a fundamentally 2d environment which is really cool. I would have loved to read Starcraft's source code, but I imagine that'll never happen now with Remastered.

pippolong on Dec 8, 2018 | [–]

Ambrosia Software just vanished. Escape Velocity was one of the finest game concepts ever made IMO. Could have become an epic MMO game.

laaph on Dec 8, 2018 | [–]

You should check out Endless Sky for a good open source remake of Escape Velocity.

http://endless-sky.github.io

EamonnMR on Dec 13, 2018 | [–]

I have put many hours into that fine game. There's also NAEV

https://github.com/naev/naev

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