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- 1Pyxel brings retro game development to Python●Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors
Developer kitao has released Pyxel, an open-source Python retro game engine now drawing attention on Hacker News. The tool lets users build games in the style of classic consoles, with pixel art and sound editors built in so creators can handle graphics, audio and code in one place. The project is hosted on GitHub and free to use.
- 2Space game ships with RISC-V emulator that runs Linux●Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux
The developers of Against All Odds, an independent space game, have built a RISC-V emulator called PasRISCV directly into their game, capable of booting Linux inside the game world. The team published a blog post detailing how the emulator works. Hackers and programmers online are discussing the unusual engineering choice and what it means for in-game computing.
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ArtCraft is an open-source project written in Rust, described as an intentional crafting engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers. The project is gaining attention among developers, ranking highly on GitHub's trending list this week. Details on its exact features and toolset remain sparse, but its positioning for creative workflows rather than game development has drawn interest from the Rust community.
- 4Testing Realistic Water Physics in Minecraft●Testing The Limits of REALISTIC Water Physics In Minecraft!
A new Minecraft experiment is drawing attention for pushing the game's water physics to their limits, testing how far realistic fluid behaviour can be simulated inside the block-based sandbox. Players are responding enthusiastically, with strong engagement suggesting broad interest in physics-focused Minecraft content and what the game's engine can handle when modded or pushed beyond normal play.
- 5OpenOMSI Engine breathes new life into bus simulator OMSI 2●OMSI 2 HAS NEVER BEEN THIS GOOD! - OpenOMSI Engine
The OMSI 2 bus simulation community is buzzing over the OpenOMSI engine, an overhaul that reportedly makes the decade-old simulator run and look better than ever. Fans of the franchise say the community-built project delivers major improvements to performance and features, prompting renewed interest in a game originally released in 2013.
- 6Valve engineer Timur Kristóf improving older AMD GPU support on Linux●The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
Valve engineer Timur Kristóf has been working on improving Linux driver support for older AMD graphics cards, with the work presented at the XDC 2026 conference and detailed by Phoronix. The updates target the open-source AMDGPU driver, aiming to better maintain and optimize support for aging AMD hardware on Linux. Readers on Hacker News are discussing the significance of Valve continuing to invest in older GPU support.
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GPUVis, an open-source GPU trace visualizer by developer Mike Sartain, is drawing attention among graphics and performance engineers. Hosted on GitHub, the tool lets developers analyze GPU scheduling and execution traces, helping them diagnose frame timing issues and rendering bottlenecks in games and graphics applications. Discussion centers on its usefulness for profiling graphics workloads.
Repos
- rehan-remade/universal-modder Point Claude at any game. Skills, tools and the fal MCP that let Claude Code mod almost any PC game you own: recon, reve
- Niko1221/Strata Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anth
- CAPCOM-TD-OSS/REDox High-performance, token-based structured data engine for .NET. A core component of REX, the technology behind CAPCOM
- kitao/pyxel A retro game engine for Python
- dgreenheck/tidewater Coastal town built with Opus 5.5
- mizorewww/laya-coreml Local Laya typed decisions on Apple Core ML and Neural Engine. Validated ports, ~5 ms short decisions on M3 Max, reprodu