What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI
It took about a week, primarily because I can only run a single lane on my workstation due to VRAM constraints, but it got the job done: Faithful reproduction of rendering and game rules in a new Three.js rendering engine. A few days ago I started modernising it into a Total War meets Heroes of Might and Magic like experience that you could actually play without getting a UX aneurysm. But doing so while keeping the original “underneath”.
- ▪It took about a week, primarily because I can only run a single lane on my workstation due to VRAM constraints, but it got the job done: Faithful reproduction of rendering and game rules in a new Three.js rendering engine.
- ▪A few days ago I started modernising it into a Total War meets Heroes of Might and Magic like experience that you could actually play without getting a UX aneurysm.
- ▪But doing so while keeping the original “underneath”.
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| Publication time | Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:49:01 +0000 |
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September 4, 2026 on LinkedIn What reverse engineering and modernising an old war game tells us about the economic impact of the transformer retro games Game Development Artificial Intelligence Reverse Engineering Some observations from my War of the Lance (1989) Code Harness assisted modernisation (WIP) I gave Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next a job: Reverse engineer and port War of the Lance (1989) to modern browsers. It took about a week, primarily because I can only run a single lane on my workstation due to VRAM constraints, but it got the job done: Faithful reproduction of rendering and game rules in a new Three.js rendering engine. A few days ago I started modernising it into a Total War meets Heroes of Might and Magic like experience that you could actually play without getting a UX aneurysm.
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