mEldritch: a moddable build of the Eldritch engine

What is it?

This is a build of the Eldritch source code released by David Pittman that has been modified to support modding more easily. Thanks, David, for releasing the source code to your game, and for being very helpful with this project!

This version of Eldritch has been tested with the humble version of Eldritch on Windows 7, Linux (XUbuntu 16.04 and 17.10) and MacOSX Yosemite. It has also been tested with the windows steam version of Eldritch on Windows 7, Linux and Mac. Note that since release 256, only 64-bit builds are provided. 32-bit builds are no longer suported.

You need the original game to use this, which you can get from http://eldritchgame.com/

Important note: mEldritch will not work with Build 400+ of Eldritch (a.k.a. Eldritch Reanimated), you will need to use the legacy version!

Also, this is no longer supported. Find the source for the most recent develoment version below.

Major changes to the original Eldritch source are:

unified build system (Makefiles & gcc) on all 3 platforms
ported editor and all tools (except for the ContentSyncer) to Mac and Linux
revised loader for game assets, for easy overriding of game assets in mods
revised config file loader, with a similar purpose
changed a few editor key bindings from the original, since they clashed with stuff on Linux or Mac. Also, made a few other keys available in the game, like Quicksave/load (using the latter will leave a mark on your game screen, though ;) )
screenshots working on all platforms
made all spawners that make sense available in the editor
made a subtool to choose the theme for your room from within the editor
an entry point to mods having new worlds within the game
added PNG loading for textures
a preview mode for the editor
limited scripting using the lua scripting language
and a load of smaller things to facilitate the above
provided example mods, and something resembling the beginnings of a documentation
added support for steam content. Thanks go to David for providing the source code for some missing components and allowing me to distribute them with mEldritch under the same license as the rest of the Eldritch source code!

News

Someone actually did something with this! Meaning, there is a mod. You can find it here.

Versions

Release 314+ (2020-25-12) - final release
Release 256 (2018-04-01) - what's new
Release 183 (2015-10-13) - what's new
Release 128 (2015-02-19) - what's new
Release 109 (2015-02-04) - initial release

Documentation

Download

The current build is 256, released on Apr 01, 2018.

Old Releases

Build 183 for Windows, Linux, MacOSX, Source
Build 128 for Windows, Linux, MacOSX, Source
Build 109 for Windows, Linux, MacOSX, Source

Final Release

This is not strictly speaking a full release, it is the source code of the latest development version, before this project was canned. This has only been built and tested on linux (MiNT 20.04), but should build on Windows and Mac also, with minimal modifications. If you're interested in checking out the endless Eldritch mod, that is included here, or the latest aditions to the lua integration or just want to poke around, you can get the last source code here:

mEldritch-Source-314+.zip

License

Like David's original Eldritch sources, this is available unter the zlib license. The license itself is included in the source archive.

Extras

I have begun to make a mod based on the movie "The Whisperer in the Darkness". I made some custom models, textures, a few rooms, some config files, but I lack the time to do any more work on it. If anyone wants do complete it, or study it, they're more than welcome to. You can download the stuff here. It is released under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Contact

If you have anything to say about this, comments, bug reports, whatever, feel free to email them to