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A fifteen year open source effort to remake Dungeon Keeper just hit 1.0Modern controls, 4K and multiplayer included
Modern controls, 4K and multiplayer included
Image credit:KeeperFX
Image credit:KeeperFX
Enter KeeperFx, a long-running open source project to make the original Dungeon Keeper run at higher resolutions, with widescreen support, improved AI, online multiplayer, modern controls and user-made levels. After fifteen years of on-off development, it just hit 1.0.
The 1.0 release includes “500 fixes and features” added since the last version. It now runs at higher framerates, with flexibly sized maps, new units, new customisation options, and alot more.
Work began on KeeperFX back in 2008 as an attempt to make Dungeon Keeper run more smoothly on Windows. Alec first covered those effortsin 2010. Development was then stalled until 2016, when new KeeperFX developers took over the open source project and carried it forward to today.
The result is something far more ambitious. GOG’s release of Dugeon Keeper Gold will already make Bullfrog’s original DOS release run comfortably under Windows, whereas KeeperFX goes so far as to make it also run at 4K, for example. It also makes it more customisable, so the game’s still existant level-creating community can also make new creatures and more. There’s anonline resource for downloading custom content.
You can finddownload links and instructions via keeperfx.net. You’ll need a copy of Dungeon Keeper to play, such as the cheaper-than-chipsaforementioned GOG release. There are specific install instructions forhow to make it play nice with KeeperFX.
