Red Eclipse is a single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2.
This lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, completely at the control of map makers, while maintaining a general theme of agility in a variety of environments.
In a true open source by the people for the people nature, it tries to work closely with the gaming and open source communities to provide a better overall experience, taking all sorts of feedback from your average player, to your seasoned developer, aiming to create a story-driven game environment that is flexible, fun, easy to use, and pleasing to the eye.
Features include:
- Agile gameplay: sprint, wall run/kick, and impulse dash.
- Balanced gameplay, completely at the control of map makers, while maintaining a general theme of agility in a variety of environments.
- Game modes: Campaign, Cooperative, Objective, Capture the Flag, Elimination and Deathmatch.
- Built-in edtior for creating your own maps.
- Mutators which modify the gameplay including:
- Vampire.
- Expert.
- Jetpack.
- Instagib.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows.
Website: redeclipse.net
Support: GitHub Code Repositories
Developer: Quinton Reeves, Lee Salzman
License: zlib/libpng license

Red Eclipse is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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