Friday Timewaster

There's dedication, then there's obsession. This is the latter. Some dude wanted to play Xcom, but modern comps have real problems with it. So he re-wrote the entire thing from the ground up. I don't mean he decomplied the exe and fiddled with the code. I mean he started with a blank coding template and re-wrote the entire game... and it looks and plays exactly like the original. Hell, it's ever better: it's moddable.

The magnitude of this feat is difficult to comprehend. Imagine you wanted to acquire an original Model T, but none were available. "No problem," you say. "I'll just go buy a bunch of sand and iron ore, grow some rubber trees from saplings and get to work! I can copy this photo I found in the basement..."

Astounding.

Give it a spin. OpenXcom.


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