Mechcommander 2 came out in I think 2000 or 2001. I bought the game and played it and found it to be enjoyable. Probably better than the first one. It reminds me of the old Jason Youngblood games that came out during the DOS days. I can’t remember the name of them but I rather enjoyed them.
Well today I was downloading some Office updates. While I was waiting for the install to finish, I scrolled down to the bottom of the download page. It recommended that I download the source code for Mechcommander 2. I assume this is because I had previously downloaded the XNA Beta. The source is available here.
I have downloaded the source and am actually in the process of building it. I thought this would be rather educational and interesting. It’s not very often that someone outside of the gaming industry gets the full source code for a title produced by a major company. I’m looking forward to being able to tweak the code and seeing how it affects game play. I’ll get thechance to see how hard it can be to balance game play.
For those who are interested, there were 0 errors but 107 warnings on my build.