About

Total Annihilation is a real-time strategy game that was released in 1997. For over twenty years fans have been playing the game, making new maps, units, and mods that expand and enhance the gameplay. However Total Annihilation is an old, proprietary game. It contains bugs, limitations and incompatibilities that make it difficult for players to enjoy on modern PCs and for modders to bring their latest ideas to life.

Robot War Engine is an original open-source game engine built using modern tools that aims to provide an experience very similar to Total Annihilation, but without the limitations of the original game engine. As a player you will be able to enjoy the game without worrying about compatibility or technical tweaks to make it run on a newer version of Windows or to play with other people online. As a modder you will enjoy freedom from old limitations, allowing you to put more content in your mods, and you can take advantage of new enhancements to better express your ideas.

Here are some of the features that RWE provides:

Support for both Windows and Linux.
An OpenGL-based renderer that makes use of your GPU.
Native 32-bit color support, compared to TA's 8-bit color.
Fancier shadows for mobile units compared to TA's drop shadows.
A virtually unlimited number of units on the battlefield, compared to TA's maximum of 500 per side before community hacks.
A virtually unlimited number of weapon types, compared to TA's maximum of 256.
A virtually unlimited number of unit types, compared to TA's maximum of 512.
No more weapon ID conflicts, a source of incompatibility between downloaded units.
Multiplayer support with NAT-holepunching, so you don't have to mess with your router.
Native support for scripting extensions developed by the community for TA.
A virtually unlimited maximum map size, compared to TA's 63x63.

RWE is incomplete and cannot be used to play real games yet. Check out the latest blog posts to keep up-to-date on development progress. If you are an experienced software developer and would like to help out, please get in touch. There is much work to be done both on the core C++/OpenGL game engine and on the Electron-based launcher application.

For more information please visit https://github.com/MHeasell/rwe