shiloh
Open-source engine that runs The X-Files Game (1998) on modern PCs and in the browser. Rust + SDL2 + WebAssembly.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 19 upvotes (top 62%) · 0 views
Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- adventure-game
- fmv
- game-engine
- game-preservation
- point-and-click
- reimplementation
- +4 more
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Could you build this?
Partial The modern engine shell in Rust, SDL2 and WebAssembly is vibe-codeable, but a faithful version depends on reverse-engineering the original 1998 game's proprietary file formats and logic, which needs specialized expertise.
What it would actually take: The stack would be Rust with SDL2 for windowing, audio and input, compiled to WebAssembly for the browser. The hard part is reverse-engineering the original game's asset formats, scripting and engine behavior so that it runs faithfully, which requires disassembly and file-format analysis skills plus the user's own copy of the game data.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 692 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #429 of 693 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
- nfs-mw · github · 2026-10-08 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Reverse-engineering Shockwave to save early 2000s web games (Rust/WASM) · hn · 2026-03-08 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- browser-game-engine · github · 2026-09-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser · hn · 2026-10-09 · 240 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- kirikae · github · 2026-10-23 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- rustyfiles · github · 2026-11-07 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Script: JavaScript That Runs Like Rust · hn · 2026-01-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Game-Catalogue · github · 2026-09-19 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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