Spearmint

Games: Quake III Arena → (Windows, 1999) · Quake III: Team Arena (Windows, 2000)

Spearmint: a heavily modified version of the Quake III Arena engine, based directly on ioquake3, the port that carries on the source code id Software released, with code from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, OpenArena, and other projects as well. It was made for creating new games and mods without modifying the engine, so much of its functionality moved into the game code, but it can still play the Quake 3 data: it runs Quake III Arena, Quake III: Team Arena, and Turtle Arena, and progress has been made toward Return to Castle Wolfenstein (multiplayer) and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, which don’t work yet. It isn’t compatible with Quake III Arena servers, mods (QVM or DLL files), or demos. For players it adds aspect-correct widescreen, high-resolution TrueType fonts, four-player split screen, improved bot AI, better gamepad support, an Instagib mode, and optional unlagged instant-hit weapons, plus touches such as smoothly sinking corpses and player shadows that follow the model’s animation. The Quake 3 game code lives in a separate repository, mint-arena. Its author stopped active development in October 2018 and only releases occasional fixes: the latest release is 1.0.3, from July 10, 2020, and the main branch, for 1.1, received commits as recently as May this year. Its contribution rules say LLM (“AI”) contributions aren’t wanted.

You needThe pak0.pk3 to pak8.pk3 files from your own copy of Quake III Arena, copied into Spearmint’s baseq3 folder (and Team Arena’s into missionpack to play it); it also works with the free data from the Quake 3 demo, the Team Arena demo, or OpenArena 0.8.8. Plus Windows XP or later (32- or 64-bit), macOS 10.5 or later (PowerPC or Intel), or x86 or x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.7 or later.

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Original studio

id Software

Year

1999

Author

Zack Middleton

Stars

281

Last activity

2026-05-25 · 5 months ago

Latest version

release-1.0.3 · 2020-07-10

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C

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