★ OpenJones3D

What it is

OpenJones3D is an open-source effort to reverse-engineer the original Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine game engine from its decompiled executable. I’ve contributed module-level reverse-engineering work, code-quality improvements, and refactors to make the codebase more maintainable.

What I worked on

• Reverse-engineered modules from the decompiled executable, mapping unfamiliar binary patterns back to readable C.
• Corrected inconsistencies in the inferred engine code, fixing places where the decompilation had introduced subtle bugs.
• Refactored repetitive patterns into macros and helper functions, cutting duplication and making the code easier to reason about.

Why I worked on it

It’s a great exercise in reading code you didn’t write — and code that, in places, no human had ever written cleanly to begin with. Unlike contributing to a normal open-source project where you can ask the original author what they meant, here you have only the binary’s behavior as ground truth. That sharpens a particular kind of patience.