Shalltear
Your favorite C++ game engine~
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GITHUB · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: game development engines · 83 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- cpp
- game-engine
- game-engine-3d
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Could you build this?
No A C++ game engine with a Vulkan Forward+ renderer, multithreaded physics, animation with retargeting, hot reload, and a full editor is a multi-year effort. Vibe coding can scaffold pieces, but it can't deliver the graphics and engine-architecture depth these features require.
What it would actually take: The stack would be C++ with Vulkan (or a similar low-level API) for the renderer, an ECS or scene-graph core, a physics backend such as Jolt or PhysX, and an animation system with blend trees and IK. The editor would need a dockable UI framework such as ImGui plus a hot-reload module system and a shader compiler pipeline. The hard parts are GPU rendering correctness and performance, engine architecture, and tooling, which take experienced graphics and engine engineers working over years.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2657 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1961 of 2658 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.
- Shalltear Engine · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.88
- elysian-shadows · github · 2026-10-25 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Hybrid-Transpiler · hn · 2025-12-26 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- OpusSkate · github · 2026-09-22 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Journey · hn · 2026-02-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- omori · github · 2026-10-19 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Rinten-Engine · github · 2026-10-09 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Eugeniusz · github · 2026-09-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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