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Liberty: a from-scratch engine that loads your own copy of GTA IV
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GITHUB · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 84%)
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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No Loading GTA IV's proprietary asset formats and building a from-scratch engine that runs them requires deep reverse engineering of RAGE engine formats, shaders, and physics, which vibe coding cannot substitute for.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a custom renderer (likely Vulkan or DirectX), parsers for the proprietary RAGE archive, model, texture, and collision formats, and reimplementations of game logic such as physics, AI, and streaming. It requires experienced graphics and reverse-engineering engineers working for years, and it depends on the user supplying their own copy of the game data.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #741 of 885 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.
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