openblack

About

Black & White is a 2001 god game by Lionhead Studios, published by Electronic Arts, in which the player acts as a god working through an avatar creature whose behavior changes based on how it is treated. openblack is an open-source reimplementation of Black & White written in modern C++ with OpenGL and Vulkan rendering, and it needs the original game assets. Pre-built test binaries are offered for Linux, macOS and Windows, with experimental builds for Android, iOS, web and other targets.

How it differs from the original

It targets platforms the original never ran on, including Linux, macOS, Android and WebAssembly builds, several of them experimental.

Getting started

Install the original game from its installer, apply official patches 1.10 and 1.2 (avoid patch 1.3), then point openblack at the installation folder with the -g flag. On Linux and macOS the original can be installed through Wine to extract the assets.

Media

Additional notes

Assets

The team will not provide the copyrighted original assets, but the README includes a guide for extracting them.