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A free, open source C# framework for making games, or your own game engine. Direct access to native APIs and Vulkan, with the low-level libraries around them. The foundation under Kitten Space Agency and RimWorld's Waylith engine.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 1875 upvotes (top 1%)
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- csharp
- dotnet
- game-engine
- gamedev
- vulkan
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See all 171 similar launches →Could you build this?
No Building a low-level C# game framework with direct native API bindings and Vulkan integration requires deep systems programming, graphics architecture, and low-level memory management.
What it would actually take: Requires native P/Invoke bindings or C++ interop for platform APIs and the Vulkan graphics pipeline, custom memory allocators, shader compilers, and high-performance concurrency architectures. Building this requires specialized systems engineering expertise in graphics programming, cross-platform hardware abstractions, and real-time engine internals.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #3 of 172 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 343 days after the earliest competitor.
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