Remaking Arcanum 1 in C#

Of course, Im sure it's "possible", but Im wondering if anyone's considered the feasibility of this? The reason it comes to mind is that with the new XBLA community games function, and the ability to create games for the 360 from a hobbyist standpoint, I've seriously considered attempting to port the game over.

Now this isn't a question about the legalities of it, (im not starting any work till I can figure out who owns the rights currently and if I can get their permission to do this), just wondering if anyone has any idea of how difficult this will be (Im guessing -very- from the base code perspective) it would be to convert?

 

Hello Well, I've already started this project some time ago, its called ArcanumAlive and info about it is posted in this forum.... I've stopped to work on it for a while, because I need to learn for exams... after exams I'll continue to work on that.

The main problem is to decode all formats and make a new format, or make a loaders for that original arcanum formats... so if you dont know structures of arcanum game formats, then its impossible to rebuild that game

 

Awesome

I'm glad to see that something is in the works!

by the way, is it possible to have a retouched version of the current UI in Arcanum: Of Magicks & Obscura?

I would love to have a better looking UI. I'm kind of tired of that one... and it takes up way too much space on the screen.

I've been searching around for a while, and the only thing I could find was this:



I found this image on the Arcanum Ultima page, it's a Modification for the game sort of. That screenshot is the retouched version I could find, of the original Arcanum UI. However, it still takes up too much space. But I still love the way that looks.

Is there a way to get that as of yet?

*before you ask, no it's not in the Arcanum Ultima, which is why I don't get the point of the screenshot being there.*

Thanks.