Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf: Rewooled

Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf: Rewooled

An enhanced edition of the 2001 PC game Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf (released in North America as Sheep Raider), PAL version, to modern 64-bit systems. The game's code is decompiled C++; the Windows-only layers it was written against (DirectDraw, Direct3D 7, DirectInput, DirectSound, the registry) are replaced by SDL3:

• Rendering: SDL3's GPU API - Vulkan, Direct3D 12 or Metal - behind a small renderer interface (src/render/) that reproduces what the game asked of Direct3D 7.
• Sound: a software mixer over SDL3 audio playing the game's DirectSound buffers (src/platform/).
• Input and window: SDL3's keyboard, mouse, controllers and window.
• Settings and saves: files in the user's data folder instead of the registry.

It builds for Windows (MSVC, x64), macOS (Apple Clang, arm64) and Linux (Clang, x86_64 or arm64). You need your own copy of the game: its data is read at run time and is not part of this repository.

How it was made: the decompilation was done with Claude and Codex coordinating via an MCP mailbox server - reading the machine code, naming, writing the source. In-game testing and technical knowledge about the game's inner workings came from the Sheep Raider community.

What is here

Path	What it holds
src/app/, src/engine/, src/game/, src/objects/, src/fx/	The game: application shell, engine, the player characters and the level objects
src/render/	The renderer interface and its SDL3 GPU backend
src/launcher/	SheepLauncher: picks the renderer, resolution, full screen and controller (Dear ImGui), then starts the game with them as command-line flags. On macOS it is built as the app bundle Rewooled.app, with the game inside it and the game's data next to it
res/	the app icon (icon.png, a square PNG) and the macOS bundle's Info.plist template
src/platform/	SDL3 window, input, audio, save storage, and the small Windows compatibility layer the game code still calls
src/sdk/	Declarations of the Windows, DirectX and C runtime names the game code uses
src/include/	Shared headers: types, enums and the classes. scenaric_props.h is generated from your copy of the game (tools/scenaric_to_c.py)
src/jpeg/	The Independent JPEG Group's library, release 6, unmodified, under IJG's own licence
tools/	Build helpers and level-file readers (TOOLS.md)
docs/	Notes on the engine: conventions, the game's files, the frame loop, the object system, the input system

Credits

• uhwot, for sdw_re_stuff (MIT): the research into the game's asset formats (WAR, DAV, SND and others), with an exporter and ImHex patterns.
• The whole Sheep Raider Discord community, for helping crack this game open.

Licence

TBD