Lost Engines / reverse engineering

Earthsiege

Metaltech: Earthsiege is Dynamix’s 1994 combat simulator. You pilot a walking war machine called a HERC, manage its weapons and damaged components, and lead a squad against the Cybrids.

Earthsiege cockpit and terrain rendered by the original engine

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Earthsiege Exhumed

Explore the recovered HERCs and battlefields, and read how the engine draws its worlds, runs its missions and takes its machines apart.

Visit Earthsiege Exhumed ↗

The full investigation

These viewers and reports document the original game data and executable, with the comparisons used to build the C++ reconstruction.

Analysis viewers ↗

Models, animations, missions, cockpits, artwork, fonts and music auditions.

Research reports ↗

Technical findings, instruction traces and comparisons with the original game.

Earthsiege in C++ ↗

The reconstruction, its source code and release builds.

Original manual ↗

The HERCs, controls, equipment and campaign described by Dynamix.