This page contains a list of posts referencing the Birthright: The Gorgon’s Alliance Support series of pages. These pages provide guidance on how to install and mod the game.
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Birthright Preservation Patch
The Birthright Preservation Patch is an enhancement patch for Birthright: The Gorgon’s Alliance, addressing bugs and improving usability of the game and the associated Character Editor utility. Development is currently focusing on bugs reported to the project’s issue tracker. Feel free to report bugs or request new features here or on the ModDB page. I try to keep track of them as well as I can. Installation An installer is in the works that will install the patch for you and (optionally) also the game and patch 1. -
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Modding Reference
Reference information for creating new adventures, modifying textures, and other modding. This may get split into multiple documents in the future. It is currently under construction and may change often. Definitions Thing A collectible object, decoration, or person in an adventure. This term comes from Doom’s WAD format, which is used for adventure maps. Pascal case Text formatted with no spaces, and capitalizing the first letter of each word. Ex: QuestTypeThing. -
Installing Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance on Windows 10 & 11
One of the things I find most interesting about desktop support is trying to support legacy hardware and software. Not only does it provide an opportunity to learn more about the history of computing, but it also tends to provide some interesting compatibility challenges. The place where I run into this most often and that I think gets the most words written about it on the Internet is in getting old games running on modern hardware and operating systems.