Kevin Bentley, one of the game developers Descent 3obtained from the management of Outrage Entertainment discoveries project source codes. Kevin, who has taken charge of the support of the new project, is recruiting a team of enthusiasts to revive and continue the development of the game. The code is written in C++ and open under MIT license.
The game Descent 3 was released in 1999. The game combines a first-person shooter and a flight simulator in open and closed space. Single-player mission mode and multiplayer battles are supported. The latest Descent 3 “1.5 Patch” codebase has been published, including changes prepared several years ago to update code written in the 1990s. Supported build for Linux, macOS and Windows.
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The delivery does not include music and libraries for displaying videos in ACM and MVE formats, the rights to which are not owned by Outrage Entertainment. To ensure correct assembly of the project, missing libraries will be replaced with stubs in the near future. In the future, the videos used in the intro and final scenes are planned to be converted into a format for which open libraries are available. The tasks that they intend to solve first include providing the ability to build for different platforms, creating an infrastructure for testing in a continuous integration system, cleaning up the code and removing components of the old version control system.
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