EA have just released the source code for several games in the Command & Conquer series ( Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn), Red Alert, C&C Renegade, and C&C Generals and Zero Hour ) under the GPL v3 license. They also added Steam Workshop support to several titles in the C&C series. This is a different code-base than the 2020 release that went alongside the Steam release of Command & Conquer Remastered.
Details from PC Gamer:
EA’s announced that it’s releasing the source code for a bunch of old C&C games and—here’s the bit where I, as a man who enjoys modding but is also very lazy, gets excited—adding Steam Workshop support to a few more.
The games getting a source code release are Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn), Red Alert, C&C Renegade, and C&C Generals and Zero Hour. They’re being released under the GPL license, meaning folks can mix, match, and redistribute them to their hearts’ content without EA lawyers smashing down the door. You can find them all on EA’s Github page.
As for the Steam Workshop? That’s getting switched on for C&C Renegade, C&C Generals and Zero Hour, C&C 3 Tiberium Wars and Kane’s Wrath, and C&C 4 Tiberium Twilight (they can’t all be winners). EA’s also gone and “updated all the Mission Editor and World Builder tools so you can publish maps directly to the Steam Workshop.”
Plus, it’s putting out a modding support pack that “contains the source Xml, Schema, Script, Shader and Map files for all the games that use the SAGE engine.” I lack the useful skills to know what that really means for the modding scene, but I look forward to reaping the benefits down the line.
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Other previously released commercial game source projects include:
You can learn more about EA releasing the source code to the Command & Conquer series and more in the video below.