BSBSDobelix·Feb 21, 2026Recommendation phrase
I love that game so much!
BTW opensource engine rewrite here (highly recommended):
https://github.com/kromenak/gengine
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gengine
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kromenak / gengine
gengine
A 3D game engine capable of parsing and running data files from the classic Sierra Studio's adventure game Gabriel Knight 3
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4Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
125GitHub stars
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What it is
A 3D game engine capable of parsing and running data files from the classic Sierra Studio's adventure game Gabriel Knight 3
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I love that game so much! BTW opensource engine rewrite here (highly recommended): https://github.com/kromenak/gengine
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesGame engine for Gabriel Knight 3
1 points · Open discussionOpen-source engine for Gabriel Knight 3
1 points · Open discussionGK3 is one of my favourite games ever.
I even took a trip to the city in France where the game takes place purely because of the game.
Not to mention it's also the game where Scott Bilas started experimenting with data-driven workflow that informed his work in Dungeon Siege and influenced Entity-Component-System architecture.
Also, there's not one, but multiple people trying to recreate the engine of the (very unsuccessful) game, more than twenty years after it was released. [1] [2] [3]
...but the cat-hair-mustache puzzle is indeed the lowest point of the genre.
[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gk3tools/
[2] https://github.com/kromenak/gengine
[3] https://github.com/shff/GK3-extractor
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