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Resurfaced independently across 10 calendar years, with breakout response in 6 of them.

submissions
11
submitters
11
observed span
2011–2025
peak thread · 96 comments
576 pts
latest 20+ return · 2023-12-27
150 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Wow, my shitty C++ Rodent's Revenge remake from highschool is there too! I will submit a PR though as I since switched from Sourceforge to Github [1] and now use the MIT license. In any case, great work! Only suggestion I could make is maybe make an "Engine" category for projects like OpenMW? [1] https://github.com/pierreyoda/o2r

Not quite ready to submit this to the list yet, but I've been working on a Quake 3 engine clone from scratch in C# with Bridge.NET, targeting the browser and WebGL. It's been a super fun project so far -- a few days of part-time work and I have levels rendering nearly perfectly and I'm making progress on character model rendering. Repo is at https://github.com/daeken/WebArena and you can see a live version at http://demoseen.com/bridge/ Still a ton to do, but…

daeken·309-point thread·

I'm not sure that I would call some of these "clones". ioquake3 for example is the community maintained modernized fork of the Quake 3 engine source that id released. You can't do much with it without your own assets (either the original Quake3 assets, the OpenArena assets (that game is what I would call the Quake3 "clone"), or assets from any number of Quake 3 mods (tremulous, urban terror, etc). I think ioquake3 is an example of where open source…

jlgreco·219-point thread·

I'm still a bit sour about Square forcing the Chrono Trigger: Resurrection guys to cancel their remake of Chrono Trigger. CT is my favorite game of all time so hearing that this fan project got C&D'd killed me. The screens and the trailers looked awesome, especially considering it was 2004. http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/Crono0.jpg http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/Guardia0.jpg http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/MagusLair2.jpg http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/

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Breakout years
6

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
1658

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Total comments
395

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2011-06-01Open source remakes of games you're still lovingFirst breakoutmurkt20882
2013-05-27Open Source Game Clonespiranha21981
2014-08-15Open Source Game Clonesadamnemecek12128
2015-05-11Show HN: Open Source Game Clonesgalapago33
2017-03-03Open Source Game Clones – open-source remakes of great games in one placedrahen10
2017-10-13Open Source Game ClonesHall inductionmadc30978
2019-06-06Open Source Game ClonesBest threadpolm2357696
2021-05-24Open Source Game Clonesbminusl20
2022-08-11Open Source Game Cloneslatexr620
2023-12-27Open Source Game ClonesLatest 20+ point returnpabs315026
2025-09-09Open Source Game Clonesklaussilveira71