# Open Fodder

> Open Fodder is an open-source engine for Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder 2 for Windows, macOS and Linux, with random maps, a map editor and support for the Amiga and PC versions.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/cannonfodder/ports/openfodder/
Page updated: 2026-10-26

- Developer: Robert Crossfield
- Port type: Reimplementation (The game was rebuilt in new code that plays like the original and loads its data from your own copy.)
- Game: [Cannon Fodder](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/cannonfodder/index.md)
- AI use: Not stated
- Source code: https://github.com/OpenFodder/openfodder
- Runs on: Windows, Linux, macOS

What you need: Nothing to try it: the installer comes with the playable Amiga and PC magazine demos. For the full games, the data of Cannon Fodder or Cannon Fodder 2 (PC CD, Amiga, or the GOG release).

Open Fodder is an open-source game engine for Cannon Fodder, Sensible Software's 1993 action strategy game in which a small squad of soldiers is steered through jungle, desert and arctic missions with the mouse. It plays the retail releases of Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder 2 from the PC CD and Amiga versions, along with six Amiga magazine cover-disk demos and a PC demo.

On top of the original campaigns it adds random map generation, scripted with a built-in JavaScript interpreter, a map editor, and options for the PC or Amiga look. Demos can be recorded and played back.

Because its installer includes data from the magazine demos, the downloads are not mirrored here: get them from the project's GitHub releases page.

## How to set it up

1. Download `OpenFodder-Installer.exe` from the project's GitHub releases page and run it.
2. To play the full game, copy the data of your Cannon Fodder or Cannon Fodder 2 release into the matching folder under Open Fodder's `Data` folder, as described in its readme.
3. Start Open Fodder and pick the version and campaign to play.