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I still can’t believe epic hasn’t released a modern Unreal Tournament game.
Any recommendations for the genre? Most games are just way too slow nowadays.
My immediate thought was "this is like that project which hosts UE1 games inside UE5" and it turns out it's the same project, they've just rebranded from DXU24 to Surreal, and they now seem to have their own open-source frontend in addition to the license-encumbered UE5 frontend. The developer has a bunch of WIP videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dxu2424/videos
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So hire people to finish it?
No reason to hire people at Fortnite Salaries to complete a game that won't even make a million dollars. Arena shooters are pretty much dead.
My immediate thought was "this is like that project which hosts UE1 games inside UE5" and it turns out it's the same project, they've just rebranded from DXU24 to Surreal, and they now seem to have their own open-source frontend in addition to the license-encumbered UE5 frontend. The developer has a bunch of WIP videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dxu2424/videos
I think you are wrong. SurrealEngine was designed to reimplement the first UE1 as a standalone engine, not requiring UE5 at all.
Surreal98 (formerly DXU24) hosts UE1 games inside UE5. Plans to release as a commercial product?
SurrealEngine (this post) is a standalone UE1 reimplementation. This one is open source.
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I think you are wrong. SurrealEngine was designed to reimplement the first UE1 as a standalone engine, not requiring UE5 at all.
Seems I jumped to conclusions, both UE1 reimplementation projects are using the name "Surreal" but indeed there doesn't seem to be a direct connection between them. The more the merrier in that case. To set the record straight then: Surreal98 (formerly DXU24) hosts UE1 games inside UE5. Plans to release as a commercial product? SurrealEngine (this post) is a standalone UE1 reimplementation. This one is open source.
There's no point on reimplementing a game needing either a propietary engine (cough, cough, OpenMafia's switch into Unity) and/or a modern one with crazy requeriments defying the original purpose of replaying a game when a low end machine can't run a 20-24 years old game.
This makes me so happy and brings back a lot of memories. I really appreciate all the effort that video game archivists put into keeping these old games playable.
Yeah, when I saw the screenshot of Facing Worlds the song from that level immediately started playing in my head.