ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K

Open source RTS game running on the Spring/Recoil engine

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Zero-K

RTS game with physical projectiles, smart units
and a powerful UI, running on the Spring Engine.

This repository contains only the game module files,
without any associated infrastructure code, tools, or
artwork sources, seek those in the other repositories.

To play the game, you need to Download the lobby.

» Learn how to import content directly into the engine.

Development guide: https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Zero-K:Developing

cross-platform

game

gamedev

lua

modding

multi-platform

open-source

opensource

real-time-strategy

rts

rts-game

scifi

springrts

Project health

Overall

3.6/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

1/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

Significant stargazers

Jaro Fietz

59 followers · starred Feb 2019

Brian Broll

78 followers · starred Apr 2019

Dharkael

165 followers · starred Apr 2018

DieGoldeneEnte

6 followers · starred Oct 2019

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