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But it seems they only revlealed some of the code and not the engine nor assets.

So compiling the code could be pretty difficult.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Is it actually missing the engine? That looked like it was there when I skimmed a couple of the repos

Missing assets is pretty common when they open source commercial games, the rights of the art is often more complicated than just doing the game code.

[–] heavydust 23 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I like it when the only useful piece of information is missing: https://github.com/electronicarts

The resources are missing but you could already have those everywhere else on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Now what's missing is where will all the fans and modders hang around :-)

I sure hope we'll get some nice rehashing out of this!

About the graphics, someone will probably make a ripper of the bought copy you have, a bit like Diablo 1.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It requires more vespene gas!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

What gas? Your ass is full of tiberium! :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I wonder how hard it would be to make some minimal placeholder resources/assets, sufficient to build the game and for it to run, even if it won’t look good or be particularly playable.