Lambda Wars

Lambda Wars is currently available on Steam.
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Supported OS: Windows (See system requirements)

Lambda Wars is a mod for the Alien Swarm engine branch, currently avaliable on Steam. It is an RTS game set in the Half-Life 2 universe.

Mapping for Lambda Wars

Note:Since Lambda Wars is a mod for Alien Swarm, many Alien Swarm mapping principles apply to Lambda Wars as well (e.g., structure_seal).

Lambda Wars requires a game configuration to be added to the Alien Swarm SDK, this is documented here.

Todo: document the lw entities

Features That Would Be Useful to Modders

• Recast Navigation Mesh - These meshes are of multiple types (for different units) and are generated much faster than NextBot navmeshes. It is avaliable separately on Github: https://github.com/recastnavigation/recastnavigation
• Python bindings - Lambda Wars contains extensive (automatically generated) Python bindings. These bindings are used to extend the game code into Python, allowing to extend entity classes and define new game modes among others. These bindings are also available as a separate project, PySource SDK 2013.
• Real time lighting and shadows, from Alien Swarm Deferred.

Source Code

Lambda Wars is open source, and its source code is available here.