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open-annihilation

Open Source port of the Total Annihilation & TA: Kingdoms engines.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 25, 2026 · 21 upvotes (top 38%) · 8 views

Niche: game development engines · 85 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -86% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • gaming
  • multiplayer
  • retro-gaming
  • rts-game

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Could you build this?

No Reimplementing and porting legacy proprietary RTS game engines requires deep binary reverse-engineering, assembly disassembly, and specialized systems programming.

What it would actually take: Building an open-source engine recreation requires disassembling 1990s x86 binaries using Ghidra or IDA Pro to document proprietary file formats (.HPI, .3DO, .COB scripting bytecodes) and custom synchronous lockstep networking protocols. The modern engine would typically be written in C++ with SDL, Vulkan, or OpenGL, reimplementing pathfinding grids, ballistic physics, and bytecode interpreters. This demands senior systems and reverse-engineering developers experienced in legacy game architecture.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 4415 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1604 of 4416 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.

  • elysian-shadows · github · 2026-10-25 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • doom-os · github · 2026-09-28 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • MojoRecomp · github · 2026-09-28 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • kinetic · github · 2026-11-10 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Shalltear Engine · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • OpenWinter · github · 2026-10-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • KopruluSector · github · 2026-11-08 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • worldspring · github · 2026-10-05 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.56

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