Hacker News with Generative AI: Game Engines

Ikemen-GO: open-source reimplementation of MUGEN (github.com/ikemen-engine)
Ikemen GO is an open source fighting game engine that supports resources from the M.U.G.E.N engine, written in Google’s programming language, Go. It is a complete rewrite of a prior engine known simply as Ikemen.

Open Source, Fighting Games, Game Engines, Programming Languages, Go

108 points by klaussilveira 14 days ago | 16 comments

Vulkan Game Engine Series Written in C – Travis Vroman (youtube.com)

Vulkan, Game Engines, Programming, C Programming, YouTube

21 points by nill0 28 days ago | 1 comments

What do you think about using a game engine for UI? (ycombinator.com)
A mate is building a UI for an app using a game engine. At first, I was - WTF, but now, a few hours later, I think that there could be some merit in it.

Game Engines, Software Development

23 points by stanislavb 80 days ago | 53 comments

Ask HN: How many studios / developers have moved away from Unity? (ycombinator.com)
It's been over a year since the Unity runtime fee debacle, I'm curious for those in the games industry how many studios or individual developers you've seen that have moved on from Unity to something like Unreal or Godot.

Gaming Industry, Game Engines, Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot

22 points by 1000nettles 131 days ago | 12 comments

Sioux: Open-source reimplementation of Comanche 3 (github.com/hanatos)
sioux is a drop-in replacement engine for the 1997 game comanche 3, similar to how gzdoom is an engine for the 1993 game doom (only that gzdoom is complete and working).

Open Source, Video Games, Game Engines, Reimplementation

43 points by klaussilveira 162 days ago | 3 comments

Learn Rust the Dangerous Way (cliffle.com)
LRtDW is a series of articles putting Rust features in context for low-level C programmers who maybe don’t have a formal CS background — the sort of people who work on firmware, game engines, OS kernels, and the like. Basically, people like me.

Programming, Rust, C, Low-Level Programming, Game Engines

110 points by davikr 163 days ago | 18 comments

Redot Engine: A Fork of the Godot Engine (github.com/Redot-Engine)

Game Engines, Open Source, Software, Godot Engine

23 points by ksec 184 days ago | 75 comments

Redot Engine: A Fork of the Godot Engine (github.com/Redot-Engine)

Game Engines, Open Source, Software

14 points by mertysn 184 days ago | 4 comments

We made Unreal Engine web-compatible (WebGPU, WASM, multi-threaded) (twitter.com)

Web Development, Game Engines, Unreal Engine, WebGPU, WASM

20 points by astlouis44 214 days ago | 4 comments

Diffusion models are real-time game engines (gamengen.github.io)