About

Unvanquished is a free, open-source first-person strategy game shooter, pitting technologically advanced human soldiers against hordes of highly adaptable aliens. Players can choose from either team, providing for an entirely different experience on both sides, as humans focus on long-range firepower while aliens rely instead on quick movement and stealth. The goal of each match is to destroy the enemy base, preventing members of the opposing team from spawning. Upgrades for both teams are earned by a combination of individual performance and team map control, unlocking access to more powerful weapons and equipment for the humans, and larger, more ferocious forms for the aliens.

Our project has been in development since the summer of 2011, with our very first alpha release being made on February 29th, 2012. Ever since, we have made monthly alpha releases, with each new release adding new content in the form of assets, maps, gameplay, or engine features. Our development team consists of a mix of skilled hobbyists and seasoned professionals from around the world, and we are always receptive to new team members, both from the community and beyond.

Unvanquished is a fork of Tremulous, powered by the Dæmon engine. The Dæmon engine that powers our game is ultimately based off Quake 3, along with features from ET:XreaL, as well as our own coding efforts. We are currently in the process of rewriting our engine into C++ for better long-term maintainability. Some of our features include:

- A modern renderer targeting OpenGL 4.6 with adaptive compatibility for OpenGL 3.2 and OpenGL 2.1;
- Special effects, including bloom, rim lighting, motion blur, heat haze, and color grading;
- Advanced texturing techniques, including multi-textured terrain blending, normal and relief mapping;
- Support for glow, gloss, specular, and physical mapping;
- Modern RmlUi user interface supporting HTML4+/CSS2+ standards;
- NativeClient VM support for cross-system sandboxed game logic;
- Native dll support for game logic debugging and research-friendly prototyping;
- IQM and MD5 models with skeletal animation and procedural animation blending;
- DDS and CRN GPU-optimized image formats using the Crunch tool and the crnlib library;
- 2D minimaps and a real-time beacon system;
- Navmesh-based bots utilizing behavior trees.

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Project Leadership

Thomas “illwieckz” Debesse

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Asset Management, Public Relations
Harsh “Ishq” Modi

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Engine Programming, Administration
Maximilian “Viech” Stahlberg

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Game & Level Design, Creative Direction

Developers

Casey Addler

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3D Modeling
cu-kai

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Web Development
Sergio Anes “Cupside” Alcolea

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3D Modeling
Amanieu d’Antras

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Engine Development
Mattia “Melanosuchus” Basaglia

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Engine Development
Matthias “gimhael” Bentrup

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Renderer Development
Russ Briggeman Jr.

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Animation
Stijn “Ingar” Buys

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Level Design
Luiz Henrique de Camargo

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3D Modeling
Ted “SyphonX” Chow

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3D Modeling
chris807

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3D Modeling
Fuma

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Engine Development, AI Programming
Vladislav “gavlig” Gapchich

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Animation
Gireen

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2D Artwork, Web Development
William “Veyrdite” Hales

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Wiki Maintenance, UI Coding
Cody “Supertanker” Jackson

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Level Design
Alex “Osiris” Jerome

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3D Modeling
Jordan “Khaos” Lovegrove

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2D Artwork, Web Development
Dan “Dandoombuggy” McCarthy

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3D Modeling
Paweł “Pevel” Micek

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Level Design, Concept Art
Vincent “Warvinc” Monfette

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3D Modeling
Raphaël “RXMT” Moreault-Truchon

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3D Modeling
Alex B O’Dowd

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Concept Art
perturbed

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Programming
Jack “EmperorJack” Purvis

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Level Design
Paweł “enneract” Redman

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Programming
TimePath

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Engine Development
Vitalik “Neu” Verhovodov

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Programming
Corentin “kangz” Wallez

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Engine Development
Jan “Stannum” van der Weg

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3D Modeling & Animation
Antoine Fontaine

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Programming, Bug fixes and cleanups
Sweet

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Programming
Reaper

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Engine Development

Contributors

Sergio “Yriszar” Alvarez

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Music
Gr!se

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Translation (French)
Emily

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Translation (Italian)
Asvarox

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Translation (Polish)
Gilles “gillux” Bedel

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Translation (French)
Angel “angelob” Bedolla

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3D Modeling
Phil “PhilZero” Booth

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Concept Art
Ludwig “Geno527” Dresch

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3D Modeling
Sean Evans

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Concept Art
Adrián Chaves Fernández “Gallaecio”
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Translation (Galician)
FreeSlave

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Translation (Russian)
gnales

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Translation (French)
Gorn

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Translation (French)
Sewer Hrehorowicz

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Concept Art
Vlad “hristew“ Hristev

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3D Modeling
Ivancool

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Translation (Spanish)
Kenan “KenanJ” Johnson

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Concept Art
Asa “Norfenstein” Kravets

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Game Design
Josh “Jm82792” Martin

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Animation
no one’s cat

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Translation (German)
Redsky

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2D Artwork
Joseph “jdreyna“ Reyna

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Modeling
Peter Sharp

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3D Modeling
Alex Tikkoiev

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3D Modeling

Prior Members

kharnov

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Writing, Recruitment, Management,
Former project head
Nick “velociostrich” DeCicco

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Art Direction,
Former project head

cron

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Former project head
Volt

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Former project head
Bérenger Morel

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AI Programming
Darren “_ds_” Salt

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Programming, Web Development
Michael “Flexstyle” Birch

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Sound Development
/dev/humancontroller

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Programming
Greg “Gregstein” Bak

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Modelling & Animation
Daniel “danmal” Maloney

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CMake Maintenance
Anton “Qrntz” Pyrogovskyi

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Programming
Sixthly

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Programming
timoteo

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Programming

Thanks to…

Darklegion Development

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for Tremulous
Mercenaries’ Guild

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Stuff
id Software

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for id Tech 3
ioquake3 developers

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for working on id Tech 3
The XreaL team

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for our rendering engine
Vodin

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for Qio
Dušan Jocić

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for OpenWolf
Yves “evillair” Allaire

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for the eX texture set
Philip “Blazeeer” Klevestav

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for the pk01 and pk02 texture sets
Scott “Cr4zy” Coxhead

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for his Tech texture set
onlymeith

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for the “Waiting for Deconstruction (Instrumental)” soundtrack

A free, open-source first-person strategy shooter, pitting technologically advanced human soldiers against hordes of highly adaptable aliens