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Blood, one of the popular 3D first person shooters of the 90's developed by Monolith Studios in the famous Build engine, which was also the same engine used in Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior, had its source code leaked online. The source code leak dates back to July 1996, one year before the final release of the game in 1997, and it seems to include the full source code of the game, minus binary and asset files according to the NFO of the leak, and it includes several Ken Silverman and its coding.

The leak will mainly be relegated to historical purposes, as in terms of portability towards the game, Blood has seen a few share of open source code recreations throughout the years, with the most popular one being NBlood.

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[Deleted member 194275]

The leaks session still is not over then...

Anyway, back on the day biggest competitor of this engine was ID software games, and we don't need to wait until Wolf3D, Doom or Quake engine leaks because ID itself made them public.

 

[mathew77]

Hooray, so it means fast & native Switch port of it will comin' someday!..

 

[ShadowOne333]

Hooray, so it means fast & native Switch port of it will comin' someday!..

There's already a homebrew port of Blood for Switch, and it's quite old already, it's 3 years old.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/nxblood-nblood-on-the-nintendo-switch.534587/

 

[SylverReZ]

Finally, some good fuckin' ports.

 

[RedoLane]

Neat. I hope that means better source ports with EDuke32 compatibility!

 

[eternal]

Never even heard of this game till now. Lets hope some fans release their own remaster before the big companies get to it.

 

[SylverReZ]

Never even heard of this game till now. Lets hope some fans release their own remaster before the big companies get to it.

I doubt that they would go after a 27-year old game. Referring to DMCA takedowns btw.

 

[Kioku]

Well, shit... Too bad this isn't an official source release.

 

[eternal]

I doubt that they would go after a 27-year old game.

With all the folks that go after DukeNukem/Hexen stuff to bring it to light, and all the old nes and snes fan translations(as a random example of people going after old games lol), you dont think so?

 

[SylverReZ]

With all the folks that go after DukeNukem/Hexen stuff to bring it to light, and all the old nes and snes fan translations(as a random example of people going after old games lol), you dont think so?

I'm referring to DMCA.

 

[eternal]

I'm referring to DMCA.

Well it's not nintendo, so if someone/or a team were to go after it, maybe they would get lucky...lol it is +20 years old as you mentioned. The older the better they say. But then again there's always someone greedy(corpo wise), who realizes that the gamers are stoked for something and they pull out the notepad to make notes on how they can monetize it.

 

[MarkDarkness]

The age of leaks...

 

[dh3lix-pooch]

Leakstreak unlocked.

 

[Mark McDonut]

what the hell? I thought this was lost and that's why we never got a sourceport?

 

[eternal]

what the hell? I thought this was lost and that's why we never got a sourceport?

Someone lied.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

what the hell? I thought this was lost and that's why we never got a sourceport?

It's unfinished. This was 6 months before the final release.

 

[SylverReZ]

It's unfinished. This was 6 months before the final release.

So this could maybe be an unreleased prototype.

 

[FAST6191]

Not sure where all these leaks are coming from of all these old game source code bundles (we are too soon for devs to be dying off and someone buying the machine at the estate sale, can't imagine there are some cracked VNC/remote build tools suddenly cracked that were not and people have been shredding old hard drives/doing the dban bit for some years already) but I do like to see it.

 

[linuxares]

Not sure where all these leaks are coming from of all these old game source code bundles (we are too soon for devs to be dying off and someone buying the machine at the estate sale, can't imagine there are some cracked VNC/remote build tools suddenly cracked that were not and people have been shredding old hard drives/doing the dban bit for some years already) but I do like to see it.

well someone at Apogee seemed to find a lot of Duke Nukem stuff atleast