Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game launched on July 13, 2024 with 485 votes, #77 of 5,184 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
This project resurrects a dormant real-time strategy game based on Dune, bringing back a title that had been abandoned. Developed for fans of RTS games and the Dune universe, it restores playable functionality to a game that was previously unavailable. The work focuses on reviving the game's mechanics and making it accessible again to those interested in strategy gameplay set in the Dune setting.
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From the sources
You can download the patch here , and the source code is available on github . The rest of this blog post is a fairly technical explanation of how and why I made this thing. Emperor: Battle for Dune is a 2001 realtime strategy game made by Westwood Studios , arguably the inventors of the RTS genre. It is a sequel to Dune 2000 , itself a remake of sorts of Dune II , considered by many to be the original RTS. The Dune RTSes hold a special place in my heart, with Dune 2000 being the first PC game I ever bought, and my introduction to the Dune universe. Emperor followed up on Dune 2000, bringing 3D graphics, vastly improved UX, and an absolutely bangin' soundtrack . All that said, it isn't that…from wheybags.com
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