About
Claw is a 1997 2D side-scrolling platformer by Monolith Productions for Windows, in which the pirate cat Captain Claw works through 14 levels. OpenClaw is a cross-platform C++ reimplementation of Captain Claw, written from scratch with SDL2 and Box2D, that loads the original game's asset archive. It builds for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and WebAssembly.
How it differs from the original
It runs on platforms the original did not, including Linux, Android and web browsers. The browser build has limits, though: MIDI music is disabled and the death and teleport fade effects are broken.
Getting started
Copy the original game's CLAW.REZ archive into the release folder, zip the bundled assets folder into an assets archive, and build with CMake. A Claw Launcher tool, which also runs on Linux through Mono, lets you change video, audio and asset settings.
Additional notes
- Linux audio
- On Linux, background music needs timidity and freepats installed.