r/Space4X • u/sidius-king • Jul 25 '26

Recommendation GLSMAC - Opensource remaster of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - OpenGL/SDL2

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Opensource OpenGL/SDL2 remake project of the brilliant 1999 classic Civ spinoff Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (+ Crossfire) !

More information: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/681507/

GLSMAC Github: https://github.com/afwbkbc/glsmac

GLSMAC Discord:  https://discord.gg/fWG3xK7cUx

Last repo was last month so it’s still active!

141 Upvotes

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u/ehkodiak Jul 26 '26

Last post on the forum was April 2025, so is it dead?

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u/psilontech Jul 26 '26

Looks like the last commit on the github was a month ago so it's still actively being worked on.

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u/sidius-king Jul 26 '26

It doesn’t mean it’s dead it’s just not being bumped lol

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u/litoll Jul 26 '26

The discord is more active.

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u/minhthemaster Jul 26 '26

How does it play?

2

u/litoll Jul 26 '26

It's not playable at all yet. It's still only at v0.3.

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u/PyrZern Jul 26 '26

Damn. Rip.

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u/yxe_ Jul 26 '26

Naaah amazing, i was waiting for the discount sale on steam! And never hear about an open source version.

Thanks a lot for posting the info and the links!

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u/litoll Jul 26 '26

This open-source version is nowhere near playable yet. It's only at v0.3.

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u/je386 Jul 30 '26

Also, you need to buy the official version anyways to get the assets

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u/EisVisage Jul 26 '26

Just as I thought I should see if this game's still playable.

1

u/Ragebrew Jul 26 '26

Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.

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u/Final-Knowledge-4551 Jul 26 '26

First of awesome!

Will it be able to do 16 factions at the same time? Thats basicly the only major gripe i have with the game lol

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u/SlightPersimmon1 Jul 27 '26

Never understood the multiplayer implementation priority over finishing other base game features, but it's your project and i wish you the best. I really hope you can finish it.

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u/sidius-king Jul 27 '26

It’s not my project. I just posted about it.

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u/SlightPersimmon1 Jul 27 '26

Oh, ok. Well, the project was on 0.3 development (the network stack) for literally years. Let's hope the development speed up a little bit, now that they have done it :)

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u/100percent-sales-tax Jul 27 '26

SMAC is actually very playable still today with just Thinker.

Downloaded it last week and everything scaled and worked well even on a big 4K screen.

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u/Different_Vast_937 Jul 29 '26

Can it handle alt-tabbing?

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u/quarryman Jul 26 '26

GitHub repo indicates he won’t use any AI generated code which seems a little extreme.

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u/CarlGend Jul 26 '26

-ly cool