GemRB: The Infinity Engine Clone

GemRB: The Infinity Engine Clone emulates BioWare's Infinity game engine (e.g. Baldur's Gate).

This Game Engine is a port of the original Infinity Engine (the one of Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale) to Linux/Unix, MacOs X and Windows with some Enhancements.

Do you like creating a game like Baldur's Gate?

What is new in this release:

• one can play through the whole Baldur's Gate saga
• custom TTF fonts support
• arbitrarily sortable casting list
• ios configuration interface, xcode project
• more pst spawn ini flags, individual critical hit animations
• many assorted featurettes and bugfixes

What is new in version 0.6.5:

• iOS port and enhanced touchscreen support
• quickspell support, keymap.ini handling
• yet more unhardcoded PST projectiles, area comments, party npc interactions
• squirrels and other small game don't die instantly
• stores and stacking
• effects, triggers, actions, dialogues
• performance, bugfixes and internal cleanups

What is new in version 0.6.4:

• compatibility with the bg2 demo
• Planescape Torment: Modron maze and (un)hardcoded projectiles
• full wild, dead, miscast and vocal magic support
• Autodetect GameType if it is set to 'auto' or commented out
• bagful of bugfixes

What is new in version 0.6.2:

• a basic SDL_mixer plugin for faster, but lower-quality audio (porters rejoice!)
• dualclassing for bg1 and iwd
• new and improved triggers, actions, effects
• a big amount of miscellaneous bugfixes taking out many annoyances

What is new in version 0.6.1:

• a minimal dataset (no game yet)
• a BI(n)K player plugin for the IWD2 movies
• new actions, turn undead
• the internal design was cleaned up in many places
• plenty of tweaks and bugfixes

What is new in version 0.5.1:

• BG2:SoA is roughly completable!
• almost all missing IE's hardcoded projectiles, spell hit projectiles, projectile trails, projectile failure (spell), projectile effectlists
• improved actions, effects and triggers
• sorcerer style spellbooks, reading of iwd2 spellbooks
• improved pathfinding, feet circles, fog of war and worldmap travel
• improved combat, damage resistance and spellcasting (especially summoning)
• hundreds of bugfixes

What is new in version 0.5.0:

• New features:
• SoA, ToB and PST are roughly playable beyond their first levels
• combat: dual-wielding, APR, proficiency and style boni, dexterity bonus, initiatitive and speed factor, individual combat rounds
• many IE's hardcoded projectiles and support for projectile sounds
• IWD2 GUI now works after chargen too
• bg2 chargen now levels to the correct level
• summoned and charmed creatures can be ordered around
• actor tooltips (name and injury status)
• running, initial variable values and portal animations in PST
• hardcoded monk bonuses
• Improved features:
• dialog, actions and triggers
• combat mechanics, animation, feedback, ranged combat
• matters of time and matter
• levelup, dual classing, multiclass handling
• focus: scrolling while paused is now possible
• animations (projectile, creature)
• pathfinding
• area music restarts when there's no music playing
• disarm trap checks skills
• various guiscripts
• bugfixes
• Applied patches:
• #2802190 jbmetz (improve the rpm spec handling)
• #2802437 danamin (patch bomb sanitizing bg1 chargen + bg2 code share)

What is new in version 0.4.0:

• New features:
• level up support in bg2
• basic party reordering
• bashing of containers and doors
• persistent area effects (cloudkill, stinking cloud, web, etc.)
• item amount window for stack splitting (shift+click or doubleclick)
• depletion of item charges
• opcodes: disable spellcasting, cutscene2 (pocketplane travel), knock, clear air, polymorph, disable button
• dynamic scrollbar creation (display of more than 10 kits, 24 spells)
• portrait effect icons
• item ability selection
• character customization
• Improved features:
• fog of war
• party reformation
• iwd and how guiscripts have been merged
• traps
• pst dialogs
• regeneration, hp bonuses, healing
• animations and projectiles
• rewritten MVE player
• ranged combat
• various guiscripts
• bugfixes
• Applied patches:
• #2770564 Whiteclone (pst options window bug) numerous patches from mattinm finishing the level up support a few patches from ape fixing and extending iwd
• #2579743 jbmetz added RPM spec files

What is new in version 0.3.2:

• Lots of bugfixes and polish.
• Wrapper python classes that simplified the GUIScripts
• trap detection, removal, triggering, xp, feedback, autopause
• shortcuts for the default cancel (esc), instant tooltip (tab; animated), hard pause (h)
• arbitrary feat prerequisites in iwd2
• extended night areas
• improved ppc support (no more crashes)
• formations (arbitrary sizes, rotation, cursor)
• container/door/infopoint cursor and highlight handling

Requirements:

• Python
• SDL
• OpenAL