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Paradroid Redux

Paradroid Redux is a fan-developed remake of the 1985 original, updating the visuals while preserving the core circuit-combat mechanic. It is the most faithful playable tribute to the original's design philosophy — the same tension, the same hierarchical droid structure, the same moment of breakthrough when you figure out how to read the circuit grid.

Freedroid RPG

Freedroid RPG is an open-source top-down RPG directly inspired by Paradroid's premise — a robot takeover scenario with a similar logic of inhabiting and controlling machines. A significant creative tribute to Braybrook's concept that has been in active development for over two decades.

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Uridium Remake — Unreal Engine 4 (2020)

A fan-produced Unreal Engine 4 remake of Uridium, released in 2020. Built as a demonstration of what the original's design would look like with contemporary rendering technology, while preserving the core dreadnought-strafing mechanic. A loving technical exercise that underlines how well Uridium's design has aged.

mwenge/uridium — Annotated Source on GitHub

Robert Mwenge's GitHub project is one of the most impressive pieces of retro game scholarship in recent years: a complete annotated disassembly and partial reconstruction of the original Uridium source code. Every routine is documented, every optimisation noted and explained. It is both a technical resource and a tribute to the craft of the original game.

Reading the annotated source alongside Braybrook's development diary from Zzap!64 creates an unusually complete picture of how one of the C64's finest games was built.

github.com/mwenge/uridium →