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hagane-studio

A visual desktop editor for Hearts of Iron IV modding.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 26 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views

Niche: game modding tools · 96 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • desktop-app
  • hearts-of-iron-4
  • hoi4
  • modding
  • modding-tools

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Could you build this?

Partial A visual editor UI and project tooling are straightforward to vibe-code, but the editor needs a correct parser and writer for Paradox's Clausewitz script format and HOI4's game-data semantics, which requires domain knowledge.

What it would actually take: A real version would be a desktop app (Tauri or Electron with a React canvas or node graph) on top of a parser and serializer for Clausewitz script. The schemas for focus trees, events, and decisions would need to be derived from the game's files and the modding community's documentation. The hard part is faithfully modeling HOI4's scripting semantics, which needs someone who has modded the game or studied its data files.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2836 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1381 of 2837 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.

  • VulkanaImageEditor · github · 2026-09-27 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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  • Ace-Combat-5-Static-recompilation · github · 2026-09-15 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • rovar · github · 2026-09-26 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • SoloStone · github · 2026-11-08 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Skyrim_Android · github · 2026-10-25 · 126 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • ffta-recomp · github · 2026-10-09 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • GLEECH · github · 2026-10-14 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57

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