About
Athena Crisis is a turn-based strategy game developed by Nakazawa Tech under an open-core model: this repository holds more than 100,000 lines of the game's core code — data structures, the game/map engine, rendering, AI, and the map editor — under the MIT license.
How it differs from the original
The single-player campaign, multiplayer, and all art, music, and other content are not open source and remain the property of Nakazawa Tech; those pieces, along with backend systems like user accounts and server infrastructure, are excluded from this repository and are only available in the commercial release on Steam or athenacrisis.com.
Getting started
Setting it up locally requires Node.js and pnpm; running the project's install and dev-setup scripts launches a local docs-and-playground site for exploring the code. The finished game itself offers a free demo and can be purchased on Steam or directly from the developer's site.
History
Nakazawa Tech opened most of Athena Crisis's non-content code because the company operates on an "Open Core" business model, as it explains in its own "Athena Crisis is now Open Source" blog post.
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Additional notes
- Trivia
- Internal code packages are named after Greek gods (e.g. athena, apollo, hera) — according to the maintainers, the naming theme just "seemed cute" once the first package was called athena.