GemRB

GemRB (Game engine made with preRendered Background) is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine which was written to support pseudo-3D role playing games based on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. It should run on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X and possibly other UNIX derivatives. It is licensed under the GPL.

Download it from here

You can find screenshots of the engine running various games on various devices in our gallery. We also have a list of GemRB video links.

The aim is to support all games supported by the Bioware engine, which includes the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series plus Planescape Torment. Many addons should work too.

Most work up to now has gone into BG2.

GemRB is quite complete, especially regarding bg2, bg1 and iwd which can be roughly played through. There is of course still stuff to be done.

V0.6.0 (2009-11-03)

• BG1 and IWD are roughly completable!
• levelup support for bg1 and iwd, dream cutscenes in ToB
• more hardcoded projectiles and avatar animations
• evasion, backstabbing and basic hide in shadows
• compatibility with the widescreen mod (unreleased) allows for multiple custom resolutions
• contingency and sequencer spells, beginnings of wild magic support

• combat, travelling and feedback
• better spellcasting timing
• actions, effects and triggers
• various guiscripts
• bugfixes

Older changelogs

There are multiple ways of installing gemrb and the games, see installation for the details.

See this forum thread.

• Report problems, omissions, bugs and wishes on the forum or the bug tracker.
• Improve the known problems page by providing solutions.
• Move documentation (see files distributed along with the code) to this Wiki.
• Add code for missing features (see todo).
• Write mods.
• Create a logo
• Add cool screenshots to the gallery

Many people have asked if this is possible and the answer is: of course! GemRB may not be complete yet, but that doesn't stop you from starting to work on the graphics, sound, music, story, characters, items …

Sure, this would be a huge project, but imagine having a Free game like any of the old IE classics!

The latest release is always available on our Sourceforge project page.

• Browse
• Anonymous checkout of head: svn co http://gemrb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gemrb/gemrb/trunk gemrb

GemRB now has a pretty launcher!

• Introduction
• Function index

• Via the forum
• Join irc://irc.freenode.net/#GemRB using your irc client of choice (archive)
• Authors file contains addresses of various authors

• Discussion forums
• Downloads
• SF Project page
• Ohloh page with detailed stats
• IESDP - The Infinity Engine Structures Description Project
• DLTCEP: MS Windows viewer and editor for data files of the original games; runs on WINE, too (included in the svn checkout)
• Near Infinity (latest): Java viewer and editor for data files of the original games
• Unshield: extractor for .CAB files created by InstallShield