elusivemind

The Myth Series of games started out with a great story and incorporated a game play style that to this day has not been completely replicated. And still, the greatest asset the game had was the community of people who were able to build new worlds and place them within the Myth engine.

Both Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth II: Soulblighter had numerous community built and engineered tools that facilitated the creation of entirely new games. When these were combined with the Fear and Loathing tools that accompanied Myth II, you had a very powerful means to produce open-ended, feature-rich real-time strategy games right out of the box.

Myth III, however, did not come with any tools. Vengeance, the tool that was planned for Myth III, was abandoned by its developers shortly after the game launched, leaving only a semi-functional Windows version that had too many bugs to be usable and lacked many important features.

The tool was open sourced and slowly, I began work on improving features, fixing bugs and also working on a fully carbonized port to Mac OS X. Rebranded with the name Ballistic, the tool was relaunched with improved stability, extended features, and all of the little things that made building worlds in the previous two titles possible.

Tech: Ballistic is built in C++ using YAAF (Yet Another Application Framework) which has since been abandoned by it's developers. It can be built for either Windows or Mac OS X using Codewarrior 8.3. With regard to the Macintosh build, it is a PPC binary and requires the Rosetta emulation package in order to run on Intel based Macintosh computers.

Source Code: Because development of this tool has been discontinued in favor a totally new tool to be announced later, the source code is available for download from here. The source code is made available under the same license as the original Vengence tool. Basically, do what you will with it, just please contribute any changes back to the project.