Gish (freegish)
Game: Gish (Windows, 2004)
FreeGish: a free version of Gish, Cryptic Sea and Edmund McMillen’s physics platformer, built from the game’s code, which was opened in 2010. Since the original assets were never released, the community has created new levels and data, installed as a datapack of its own, “freegish”; the project also added, among other things, playing the campaign levels with several players. Version 2.0.0 (August 13) is FreeGish’s first release, for Windows: it ports the game to SDL2 and has chapter one finished, with seven levels. Anyone with the original Gish assets can create the datapacks/original folder, copy their folders there (animation, level, music, sound, texture, and tile01 to tile07), and pick that pack in the options. The last commit is from October 20, and four of the last 100 list Claude as a co-author. The repository includes the project’s own data (about 20 MB of levels, music, and textures) and a prebuilt Java level tool.
You needNo copy needed: the “freegish” datapack has new community-made data and the game is playable with it. If you own the original Gish assets, you can use them as a separate pack. Plus Windows (2.0.0); on other systems you have to build it.
- How it gets to PC
- Port of the released source code
- Console
- Microsoft Windows
- Original studio
- Cryptic Sea
- Year
- 2004
- Author
- freegish
- Stars
- 90
- Last activity
- 2026-10-20 · 22 days ago
- Latest version
- v2.0.0 · 2026-08-13
- Language
- C
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