Shadow Warrior Source Code Released!

[Joe Siegler]

It's April 1st, so we have some news for you today. We've released the source code for Shadow Warrior!

Available now for download, the source code is being released under the GPL license - we still retain copyright on the game (plus we still sell Shadow Warrior). We've been asked many times to release this since our release of the Duke3D source two years ago, and we decided today was the day. You can check out the readme here before downloading the entire archive.

The folks reading this who aren't programmers probably won't have any interest in this release, but those who are programmers might want to check it out. A big thanks go out to all the Shadow Warrior fans around the world who have waited for this. We hope you enjoy it!

Download links:

Fileshack
3D Gamers
Fileplanet

Please remember that this is being released without any support from Apogee Software, Ltd or 3D Realms Entertainment. This is being provided as is. Having said that, we've set up this area on our web forums for folks to discuss the source code. We also have source code for Rise of the Triad & Duke Nukem 3D available, you can check those out here and here.

[Parkar]

hehe, Have been waitning all day for this, sweat.

[KaiserSoze]

my prediction was right!

thanks 3drealms!

get to work guys!

EDIT: "P.S. Keep your eyes open for the unveiling of our next game very soon. "


hea...r....t....... a....t...t....ack!

[drvarek]

WHO WANTS SOME WANG!!!!!!!!!!

i hope that Jono will port it to windows!!!

[SyntaxN]

thx 3dr, make something good with it mod-community!

P.S. Keep your eyes open for the unveiling of our next game very soon.

wtf?????

[ikkejw]

if ( release_sw_source == true )
{
    3drealms = "best game dev. ever."
}

[Parkar]

Not sure if its still his plan but. When discussing the new animation system he said he was making sure he would not make it to dependent on the duke gameplay code so it would be easy for him to port it over to sw.

I think its just a matter of time before someone makes a windows port with polymost.

Edit:
Realy curious about what that new game is and have been so since that interview with scott a little over a year ago.

[KillerByte]

Joe3DR said:
P.S. Keep your eyes open for the unveiling of our next game very soon.

Shadow Warrior Forever?

[Parkar]

KillerByte said:

Shadow Warrior Forever?

Nope, its been said before that its very unlikley that there will ever be another sw game.

[KillerByte]

Parkar said:

Nope, its been said before that its very unlikley that there will ever be another sw game.

It was a joke. We all know there is only one game coming from 3D Realms very soon.

[Parkar]

KillerByte said:

It was a joke. We all know there is only one game coming from 3D Realms very soon.

I am pretty sure they arent talking about DNF so I guess you know more about that third party game then I do.

[KaiserSoze]

KillerByte said:

It was a joke. We all know there is only one game coming from 3D Realms very soon.

not exactly. 3drealms is supposed to be helping produce another game with human head(well, everyone thinks it's human head).

let's just hope that quote is about the *game* we're thinking about.

[SyntaxN]

let's just hope that quote is about the *game* we're thinking about.

And what is the game we´re thinking about?
DNF? Prey Reloaded or what....
I hope it´s DNF, but George said that they aren´t that "close"...

[Parkar]

Naturaly its the game the only thing we now about it is thats its done by a third party with 3drealms "producing" it like with max payne. It was mentioned in an interview with scott were he said it would be announced that year(2004).

Don't rmeber were it was or the exact quotes but since it was planed to be announced last year its only natural to expect it to be that game joe is talking about.

DNF is already known so unveiling it would be a wierd choise of words if you ask me. But I guess since it has never been shown you could still call it unveilling it.

[Blade Nightflame]

S..SHADOW WARRIOR..:S...S...SOURCE....C...CODE.. O_O..

*Spasms on the floor, twitching like insane.* Hehe... Yyeeesss..

[avatar_58]

Has anyone gone through it yet? It could be a joke... (Mind you that would be mean...)

Next game?

[NutWrench]

It's real.

[Rider]

DNF or whatever they're still hiding completely. Hoping for the former ofcourse

I wonder what wonderful things this release will spawn

[jimbob]

wow, 2 years after the duke source we get the SW source? awesome

but im always a bit sceptical on april fools day.

[tpz]

This is great! Thank you 3DR and Charlie Wieder in particular.

[JackpotDen]

SyntaxN said:

And what is the game we´re thinking about?
DNF? Prey Reloaded or what....
I hope it´s DNF, but George said that they aren´t that "close"...

When? He said that they had the engine etc complete, its just content production now.they had at [u]least</u> 2004, and the first 3 months of 2005. 9 moths alltogether. POP SOT took about 1 and a half years. The matrix game (Enter) was about 1 year. Games usually take about a year of production. If george wants 6 months pre release hype, it will begin around about June. till then they would have had approx 2 years of production, with about 6 months for removal of bugs. June, its gna be then. Mark my words.

[Yenz]

Great thanks 3drealms

*I hoped that it would be released today

[Mike359]

I mirrored the source since the servers are busy.
Click here

[NutWrench]

I think I just heard JonoF say, "oh shit!"

[Parkar]

NutWrench said:
I think I just heard JonoF say, "oh shit!"

I think he was prepered

from readme.

Also thanks to Jonothan Fowler (responsible for the JonoF port of Duke 3D) for lending his experience with the Build Engine to help track down the last major issues, thus making the released source as full featured and bug free as possible.

[Sir Lemonhead]

Been waiting for this all day (it's 18:35 here)

God, I love you guys

[DLT]

JackpotDen said:

When? He said that they had the engine etc complete, its just content production now.they had at [u]least</u> 2004, and the first 3 months of 2005. 9 moths alltogether. POP SOT took about 1 and a half years. The matrix game (Enter) was about 1 year. Games usually take about a year of production. If george wants 6 months pre release hype, it will begin around about June. till then they would have had approx 2 years of production, with about 6 months for removal of bugs. June, its gna be then. Mark my words.

The only way you can ship a game in a year is if you have 100+ people working on it.

On topic

Great news can't wait to see what gets done with this I just hope that duke 3d still gets worked on.

[Blade Nightflame]

I'm keeping this in my hard-drive as a spare, incase the 3dR loose it by accident or mistake, I could give it to them somehow. Or they could just redownload of 3dgamers or Fileplanet, who knows?

[Cerberus_e]

question: seems like some members predicted that this day the source would be released? how come they knew it would be this day?

[Sir Lemonhead]

Cerberus_e said:
question: seems like some members predicted that this day the source would be released? how come they knew it would be this day?

The Duke3D source was released on April 1st.

[Parkar]

Sir_Lemonhead said:

The Duke3D source was released on April 1st.

And Wieder posted that he had a certain date in mind a couple of days ago.

[Sir Lemonhead]

Ah I missed him saying that.

[Joe Siegler]

jimbob said:
wow, 2 years after the duke source we get the SW source? awesome

but im always a bit sceptical on april fools day.

That's why I picked April Fool's Day originally for the Duke3D source release. Figured people wouldn't believe it at first.

[Blade Nightflame]

Joe3DR* said:

That's why I picked April Fool's Day originally for the Duke3D source release. Figured people wouldn't believe it at first.

Haha, that's the right way to do it. Man, you always are a funny one for certain purposes.

[GOK]

Bugger... this means I'll have to make sure Wnag Bang Heaven works with any ports, and all I want to do is sleep.

[jbailey]

I keep getting 'already defined' errors in parent.h & sounds.h
I've tried several different versions of the watcom compiler
(9.5c - OW 1.4 beta). Anyone else having this problem? Any
effort I make to fix these errors results in new errors being
reported. I can usually fix these kinds of errors easily, but
this time it's being a real pain!

[motionblur]

Now that's cool.
I 3DR ^___^

I hope JonoF ist already up to modifying the Duke Code so it fits Shadow Warrior...

[wieder]

jbailey said:
I keep getting 'already defined' errors in parent.h & sounds.h I've tried several different versions of the watcom compiler (9.5c - OW 1.4 beta). Anyone else having this problem? Any effort I make to fix these errors results in new errors being reported. I can usually fix these kinds of errors easily, but this time it's being a real pain!

I've only tested it on Open Watcom 1.3 and did a compile right before the release as well as one directly after the release to verify it.

What are the exact errors you are getting? Have you copied any new files into the directory with SW.WPJ or are you just doing a first time compile? Do you have DOS 32 selected as a buildable environment?

JonoF did have a copy as well prior to release and was able to build it, though some minor things changed between what he saw and the final release so it's still possible something might have crept in. Can't really help without more information.

Edit: Did you make sure to extract the files maintaining the directory structure? There are some other versions of the exact same files in other directories, so if you don't maintain the directory structure you could be overwriting the modified "correct" files. You should have a "Source" directory and an "Extras" directory under where you unzipped the contents.

[Phayzon]

SWEETNESS! I YOU 3DR!!!

Cant wait for something like jfShadow Warrior :P

[Ras]

Yay! I've been wanting to play SW recently, but haven't had any success. It won't be terribly long now. I can't wait to get to that woods level again.