Spearmint is a fork of Lilium Arena with two main goals; 1) provide a flexible engine for creating new games and mods, 2) support features from (and running) various id Tech 3-based games.
Spearmint can be used to play Quake III Arena, Quake III: Team Arena, and Turtle Arena. Progress has been made toward running Return to Castle Wolfenstein (MP) and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory but there is still quite a bit left before it's possible. Spearmint is not compatible with existing mods (the QVM/DLL files) or demos (game recordings) for any game.
New Spearmint major releases (X.0.0) will break VM and network compatibility with previous releases.
The source code for the Spearmint Quake 3 game, cgame, and ui code and QVM compiler is at clover-moe/mint-arena. Map editor and map compiler are available at https://icculus.org/gtkradiant/.
Pre-built packages for Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X are available at the Spearmint website.
masterbranch is for Spearmint 1.1 development.1.0branch is for Spearmint 1.0.x bug fix releases.gh-pagesbranch is the Spearmint website.
Spearmint is licensed under a modified version of the GNU GPLv3 (or at your option, any later version). This is due to including code from Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
Submitted contributions must be given with permission to use as GPLv2 (two) and any later version; unless the file is under a license besides the GPL, in which case that license applies. This allows me to potentially change the license to GPLv2 or later in the future.
Spearmint is maintained by Clover.moe at https://github.com/clover-moe/spearmint.
- Zack Middleton (main developer)
- Tobias Kuehnhammer (feedback / bug reports / Bot AI fixes)
- And other contributors
Spearmint contains code from;
- Quake 3 - id Software
- ioquake3 - ioquake3 contributors
- RTCW SP - Gray Matter Interactive
- RTCW MP - Nerve Software
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - Splash Damage
- Tremulous - Dark Legion Development
- World of Padman - Padworld Entertainment
- ioEF engine - Thilo Schulz
- NetRadiant's q3map2 - Rudolf Polzer
- OpenArena - OpenArena contributors
- OpenMoHAA - OpenMoHAA contributors
- Xreal (triangle mesh collision) - Robert Beckebans
- ZEQ2-lite (cel shading) - ZEQ2 project
High quality code contributions are more helpful than rushed contributions. LLM ("AI") contributions are not desired.
Reviewing pull requests is sometimes more work than a reviewer doing the work in the first place so pull requests may be disregarded.
If you create a derivative project that you plan for others to use, it would be preferred to give it a different title such as "Spearmint (your name ver.)" to make it easier to discuss and reduce confusion with the project maintained by Clover.moe.
If you're going to pick a different title, it would be preferred that you pick a character from one of your favorite video games to build on rather than the word Spearmint. (Spearmint is partially named after the character Gum in Jet Set Radio.)