Shockolate - System Shock, but cross platform!

Based on the source code for PowerPC released by Night Dive Studios, Incorporated.

GENERAL NOTES

Shockolate is a cross platform source port of System Shock, using SDL2. This runs well on OSX, Linux, and Windows right now, with some missing features that need reviving due to not being included in the source code that was released.

The end goal for this project is something like what Chocolate Doom is for Doom: an experience that closely mimics the original, but portable and with some quality of life improvements including an OpenGL renderer and mod support!

Join our Discord to follow along with development: https://discord.gg/m45xPan

Prerequisites

• Original cd-rom or SS:EE assets in a res/data folder next to the executable
  • Floppy disk assets are an older version that we can't load currently

Downloads

We have CI systems in place building distributable packages out of tagged commits for Linux, Mac and Windows.

Compiling / Running

Prerequisites

• SDL2, 32 bit
• SDL2_mixer, 32 bit

Building SDL

Linux/Mac

You can use the included build_deps.sh shell script to build the required versions of SDL2 / SDL2_mixer.

Windows

See the Windows readme.

Build and run

cmake .
make systemshock
./systemshock

Command line parameters

-nosplash Disables the splash screens, causes the game to start straight to the main menu

Modding Support

Shockolate supports loading mods and full on fan missions. Just point the executable at a mod file or folder and the game will load it in. So far mod loading supports additional .res and .dat files for resources and missions respectively.

Run a fan mission from a folder:

./systemshock /Path/To/My/Mission

Run a fan mission from specific files:

./systemshock my-archive.dat my-strings.res