Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust

17 comments

• ninkendo 2 hours ago

  Was this translated automatically from C? I picked a spot totally at random and saw in https://github.com/Ragnaroek/iron-wolf/blob/main/src/act1.rs in place_item_type:

      let mut found_info = None;
      for info in &STAT_INFO {
          if info.kind == item_type {
              found_info = Some(info);
              break;
          }
      }
  

  When typically in rust this is just:

      let found_info = STAT_INFO.iter().find(|info| info.kind() == item_type);
  

  Now I want to go through and feng shui all the code to look more like idiomatic rust just to waste some time on a saturday...
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  • ragnaroekX an hour ago

    Yes, the code is _very, very_ close to the C-Code. All over the place.

  • klaussilveira 2 hours ago

    As a non-Rust guy, I keep writing the example above. I didn't even know about the second option!

    If you do that, please share a link so I can learn from you! This is awesome!

  • derwiki an hour ago

    Sounds like something an LLM agent might be good at?

• amelius 5 hours ago

  Wolfenstein is peanuts compared to writing your own doubly linked list.

• hamza_q_ 2 hours ago

  Cool! I did an incomplete version in Rust a while back as well. Not a source port, tried to recreate the game from scratch myself, without looking at the C src code

  https://github.com/hamzaq2000/wolf3d-reimpl-rs

• klaussilveira 5 hours ago

  Somewhat related: https://github.com/Henrique194/iron-doom

• yuppiepuppie 4 hours ago

  This is cool! Wolfenstein will always have a place in my heart.

  You should add it to https://hnarcade.com

• xeonmc 4 hours ago

  Game would be considered too politically incendiary if released today.

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  • yorwba 4 hours ago

    Or the other way around. Wolfenstein 3D was first banned in Germany in 1994, but unbanned in 2018: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/german-ratings-board-...

  • legitster 3 hours ago

    Wolfenstein 3D was pretty squarely a WWII fantasy shooter. Only later does it get into the alternate history post-war stuff which does get somewhat more squarely political.

    I think it cuts both ways. The Wolfenstein franchise has obviously relished in violence against Nazis, but also inadvertently is part of the trend of glorifying them.

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    • TehCorwiz 2 hours ago

      The first game has zombies with guns in their chest and a mecha hitler.

• vunderba 6 hours ago

  Nice job. Couple notes for the web version:

  - Once started the shareware game on Chromium browsers seems to flicker like crazy which displays the "B.J. Blazkowicz" face.

  - You missed adding the classic code that everyone knows, M-L-I!

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  • midzer an hour ago

    Can confirm the flicker.

    I did a WASM port of the shareware from https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/wolf4sdl playable at https://midzer.de/wasm/wolfenstein/

  • Freak_NL 5 hours ago

    The flickering happens in Firefox too.

• beemboy 4 hours ago

  Sweet memories...

• hexo 3 hours ago

  again?