Gardens of Kadesh

Gardens of Kadesh is a fan project port of the RTS game Homeworld that maintains and improves the original game.

README

Welcome to the Gardens of Kadesh

📣⚠️The GoK project is currently on hold, and no longer actively maintained!⚠️

You can open issues and merge requests, but no one will look at them. If you want to advertize for your own fork, please open an MR titled "[Fork] {name of your fork}" with a short description of your objectives/vision for that fork. We will list it here.

Gardens of Kadesh (GoK) is a fan project to maintain and improve the 1999 classics RTS game Homeworld™.

Our main repository is located here. (Hover to read the URL. Usually at the bottom left corner of your browser window.) If this is not the address of the page you're currently looking at, then this is either a fork or a mirror. It may be outdated and/or broken. If they're not specific to a fork, please report issues to our main repo.

History

  • 1997-06-01: Relic Entertainment is founded in Vancouver, Canada, and begins work on a real-time strategy game, set and played in a 3D space environment.

  • 1999-09-28: Homeworld (first of its name) is released to worldwide acclaim, winning multiple awards for its novel gameplay and strong single-player story.

  • 2003: The source code for Homeworld 1 is made available with the release of Homeworld 2. In an effort to port the game to Linux and MacOS, a small, but dedicated, community of fans assemble and starts porting the code to SDL. The project is simply named "Homeworld SDL".

  • 2012: Homeworld SDL's source code is saved to GitHub.

  • 2016: Efforts on Homeworld SDL have died off, the website goes dark.

  • 2019: The project is picked up from the 2012 GitHub export (last publicly available copy of the code) by a couple of volunteers. They decide to rename the project "Gardens of Kadesh" after Mission 07 of the single-player campaign.

Acknowledgements

The Gardens of Kadesh contributors would like to thank the following people for their work on the Homeworld SDL project. Please, if you know any way to contact any of them, tell them we would love to chat!

  • Laurence "lmop" Passmore
  • nova
  • aunxx
  • zapkitty
  • shevek
  • Aaron "aaron" Plattner
  • azurief
  • lauriebradshaw
  • Matija "mnalis" Nalis
  • Theodore "ted" Cipicchio
  • alankilla
  • andrewcolchagoff
  • markunderwood
  • andreipopescu
  • bugfood
  • gregkennedy
  • tigriss

License

In short: MIT on top of REULA.

This project is distributed under the terms of the Relic End-User License Agreement (REULA), with some contributed code additionally distributed under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) license.

Third-party components retain their own licenses, which you can review in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

This project is not affiliated, nor endorsed in anyway by Relic, Sierra, Gearbox, 2K, or Take Two.
Homeworld is a registered trademark of Gearbox Enterprises, LLC.