Used to be addicted to Command and Conquer and C&amp;C:Red Alert? What if I was to tell you about a free, open source clone? And that it was written in C#?

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Used to be addicted to Command and Conquer and C&C:Red Alert? What if I was to tell you about a free, open source clone? And that it was written in C#?

"Welcome Back, Commander

OpenRA is a Libre/Free Real Time Strategy game engine supporting early Westwood games like Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

News

Release 20110906, 05/09/2011 1:43pm

We have just unleashed release-20110906, based on playtest-20110904

This release includes a totally reworked UI for C&C, many new maps, and many bugfixes.

Stay tuned for our next release which will add some really great new features!

The full user-friendly changelog can be found on GitHub.

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Here's a snip from the project's github (note the *.cs, *.csproj, etc :)

I've been following this project for a while, but earlier releases wouldn't work on my notebook, so did feel right in blogging about it. But with the latest release, the app seems to run just fine... :)