OpenRSC

Contributors: Aurora, Ken, Logg, Luis, Ryan

The project began officially in June 2018, though its earliest foundations reach back to 2009 with the work known as “Open RSCD v25.” OpenRSC has always been a community-led, non-profit, open source effort that aims to recreate the original RSC experience with accuracy while keeping the game configurable and open for anyone who wants to explore or preserve it. The intention has been to keep the memory of the 2001 to 2018 era of RSC alive and accessible at a time when it is effectively abandonware. Across more than a decade, many private servers have risen and fallen, often built around donations, paid features, subscriptions, and other profit-focused systems. The culture surrounding these servers frequently discouraged learning, sharing, and collaboration, with closed codebases, hostile behavior, financial motives, trust issues, and regular DDoS threats defining much of the scene. OpenRSC was created as a deliberate contrast to that environment, led by real-world professionals with backgrounds in software development, security, and operations who value transparency, education, and open participation.