Spearmint is a fork of ioquake3 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 zturtleman/mint-arena. Map editor and map compiler are available at https://icculus.org/gtkradiant/.

Download

Pre-built packages for Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X are available at the Spearmint website.

Resources

• Development documentation
• Discord (Clover.moe Community)
• Magical Clover Forum (archived)

Git branches

• master branch is for Spearmint 1.1 development.
• 1.0 branch is for Spearmint 1.0.x bug fix releases.
• gh-pages branch is the Spearmint website.

License

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.

Credits

• 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

Contributing

Please submit all patches as a GitHub pull request.

The focus for Spearmint is to develop a stable base suitable for further development and provide players with the same Quake 3 game play experience they've had for years.