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Dune Dynasty

Overview

Dune Dynasty is an enhancement of the classic real-time strategy game Dune II by Westwood Studios. It's goal is to make Dune II playable on modern systems with additional features, bugfixes and QoL-improvements. It is not a remake. It builds upon the original game engine as reverse-engineered by the OpenDUNE project.

Dune Dynasty features these modern enhancements for Dune II:

* Runs natively on modern machines (OpenGL or Direct3D), including Windows, macOS and Linux

* High-resolution widescreen graphics

* Aspect-ratio correction

Control Enhancements including:

* Build/order units and structures in scrollable sidepanel

* Queue building of multiple items

* Select and command multiple units by drawing a rectangle

Skirmish and Multiplayer additions:

* With 3 additional factions: Fremen, Sardaukar and Mercenaries

* For up to 6 human or AI players

* Fully custom alliances with up to 6 teams

Random generated maps (or enter fixed map seed)

Support for external music sets:

* Recorded AdLib, MT-32, SC-55 and PC speaker versions of the original soundtrack

* Sega Mega Drive soundtrack (mostly different songs, but also very good!)

* Amiga soundtrack

* Dune 2000 game soundtrack

Gameplay Enhancements (optional):

* Health bars

* Fog of war

* Brutal AI mode

Developers
David Wang
Publishers
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Platform
Windows
Genre
Strategy
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