This repository is a complete mirror of the World of Warcraft game client's UI source code, provided by Blizzard for reference by addon developers. It contains hundreds of official Blizzard addons written in Lua and XML, covering every in-game interface element from action bars and unit frames to auction house, map, and housing systems. The architecture is heavily event-driven and based on a mixin composition pattern (CreateFromMixins), with extensive use of frame pools, data providers, and secure/taint-aware coding. The codebase is production-grade and actively maintained alongside the game's releases, making it the authoritative reference for WoW addon development. While nearly all components are tightly coupled to WoW's proprietary APIs, several isolated utility libraries (color math, vector math, bit flags, export/import streams) demonstrate patterns that could be extracted for general Lua projects.
Meridian 59 is the complete source code for an early graphical MMO (1996), including a custom game server (`blakserv/`), a Direct3D 9 Windows client (`clientd3d/`), a Blakod script compiler (`blakcomp/`), a level editor (`roomedit/` based on WinDEU/OWL), utility tools, and more recent AWS Lambda functions for account management. The architecture is a classic client-server model with a binary protocol, persistent state saved in custom formats (`.rsc`, `.roo`, `.bof`), and a plugin system via DLL modules. The code is predominantly C/C++ with extensive Win32 API usage, and includes vendored external libraries (libarchive, zlib, libpng) and the ObjectWindows Library (OWL 7.0.19). Core game scripting is done in Blakod, a custom bytecode language. The codebase shows its age: heavy reliance on deprecated frameworks (OWL, Direct3D 9), manual memory management, platform-specific Windows code, and inconsistent modernization. However, it also contains some well-structured reusable components like thread-safe buffer pools, hash tables, and OS abstraction layers. The AWS components are modern Python but isolated. Overall, this is a historically significant but technically dated codebase, primarily useful for studying vintage MMORPG architecture or for fans of the game. Its reuse potential outside the Meridian 59 context is limited due to tight coupling and outdated dependencies.