[Hellgate: London] Development Team For Private Server

[Omerta99]

Hello! Thanks for stopping by



I played Hellgate: London back in 2007-2009 when the Flagship servers where running and had been pondering taking a swipe at writing an emulated server... Then I discovered that (seemingly) the entirety of the server (and most of the client) source code had leaked! I found the files here on RageZone in fact. Mythos was the subject of that thread, but Mythos and Hellgate apparently shared the same server code and build processes. The leak includes client code and assets for Mythos but not Hellgate, but I believe what is there is enough to provide a private server for the existing client.

I am looking for developers who would be willing to collaborate with me on getting this awesome game up and running again. I am a very experienced open source developer but have limited experience with C++/C#/Visual Studio. I have spent hours reading the source code and getting VS2005 set up to actually build parts of the project, and have barely scratched the surface on what I think is possible with the leaked code.

I have quite a bit of the project compiling but I am nearing my limits of experience with the Windows/C++ ecosystem and as such really want to get some more eyes and hands on the code.

I have documented what I have found so far on a wiki I threw up the other day . I have a bitbucket repo set up (which has some missing header files recreated!), you can join the Discord channel listed in the wiki or message me on here for an invite to the repo.

I am very excited about the prospect of working with a talented team on Hellgate, and I can also easily provide anything that has a monetary cost (hosting, services, etc).

Thanks for reading this far, please let me know if you are interested or have any advice!

[MentaL]