PHP-Doom
Pure PHP Doom (built-in extensions only), powered by Vulkan API with ray tracing
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GITHUB · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 24 upvotes (top 50%) · 0 views
Niche: game development engines · 85 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -86% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- doom
- ffi
- native
- php
- raytracing
- vulkan
- +1 more
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Could you build this?
Partial A PHP Doom port is a known kind of project, but running Vulkan ray tracing from pure PHP is unusual and needs low-level FFI work beyond typical vibe coding.
What it would actually take: The engine would be a port of Doom's C source logic into PHP, with rendering moved to Vulkan through PHP's FFI extension. Ray tracing requires acceleration-structure and shader work, which is specialized graphics programming. Someone needs both graphics expertise and a deep understanding of the Doom engine to make it run.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2043 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1054 of 2044 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.
- doom-os · github · 2026-09-28 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- vivace · github · 2026-09-10 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- leandoom · github · 2026-10-03 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language · hn · 2026-04-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- php-safe · github · 2026-10-21 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OpenDLSS-NR · github · 2026-09-20 · 371 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- psp-web-recomp · github · 2026-10-07 · 220 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- MojoRecomp · github · 2026-09-28 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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