Daggerfall on new enginte, two project

[vorob]

Hi, i remember this wonderful guy xlengine . com is he alive? Cause site is dead and no news

And what about that? dfworkshop net this has more chances to be finished?

[SarthesArai]

According to a recent edit on Daggerfall:DaggerXL, "On December of 2015, the XL engine is now open source and available to the public, with plans for the Beta 1 to be released in 2016."

Additionally, you may want to have a look at http://www.dfworkshop.net, another conversion of Daggerfall.

[MrFlibble]

There's some quite active discussion of XL Engine's development in the forums. The author, luciusDXL, has been working on completely reverse-engineering Daggerfall, Dark Forces and Blood so that their implementation in XL Engine is a 100% accurate reconstruction of the respective games.

Here's the project's roadmap for the near term:

There are currently 5 milestones: Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3, Beta 4 and Beta 5.

Beta 1: the initial release, all the games previously stated should be working at 100% with the exception of multi-player. As stated before only software rendering will be available but higher resolutions will be supported.

Beta 2: the OpenGL 3.2 device should be implemented and true 3D hardware rendering support added - basically Daggerfall will surpass previous builds visually in addition to being gameplay complete.

Beta 3: the "Unified Sector Theory" release - perspective correct hardware rendering for 2.5D games. At this point Dark Forces should surpass the current build visually in addition to being gameplay complete.

Beta 4: will add support for Linux and OS X.

Beta 5: the "Multiplayer" release - add multiplayer framework and support for certain games (such as Blood).

The GitHub page now has the most up to date version of the roadmap.

Here is the GitHub link: github.com/luciusDXL/XL-Engine