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iw4L
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vladtrc / iw4L

iw4L

Standalone experimental Call of Duty runtime in Rust, built on bevy and wgpu

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

Standalone experimental Call of Duty runtime in Rust, built on bevy and wgpu

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by 6-hour interval3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-10-06 02:44:09 UTC to 2026-10-12 17:21:56 UTC.

012026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-06 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 6, 00:002026-10-06 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-06 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-06 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-06 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-06 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-07 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-07 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-07 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-07 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-08 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-08 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-08 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-08 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-08 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-08 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-09 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-09 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-09 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 9, 06:002026-10-09 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-09 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-09 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-10 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-10 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-10 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-10 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-10 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-10 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-11 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-11 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-11 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-11 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-11 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-11 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-12 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-12 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 12, 12:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Oct 6, 00:002026-10-06 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-06 06:00:00 UTC101
Oct 6, 06:002026-10-06 06:00:00 UTC2026-10-06 12:00:00 UTC000
Oct 6, 12:002026-10-06 12:00:00 UTC2026-10-06 18:00:00 UTC000
Oct 6, 18:002026-10-06 18:00:00 UTC2026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 7, 00:002026-10-07 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-07 06:00:00 UTC000
Oct 7, 06:002026-10-07 06:00:00 UTC2026-10-07 12:00:00 UTC000
Oct 7, 12:002026-10-07 12:00:00 UTC2026-10-07 18:00:00 UTC000
Oct 7, 18:002026-10-07 18:00:00 UTC2026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 8, 00:002026-10-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-08 06:00:00 UTC000
Oct 8, 06:002026-10-08 06:00:00 UTC2026-10-08 12:00:00 UTC000
Oct 8, 12:002026-10-08 12:00:00 UTC2026-10-08 18:00:00 UTC000
Oct 8, 18:002026-10-08 18:00:00 UTC2026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 00:002026-10-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-09 06:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 06:002026-10-09 06:00:00 UTC2026-10-09 12:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 12:002026-10-09 12:00:00 UTC2026-10-09 18:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 18:002026-10-09 18:00:00 UTC2026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 10, 00:002026-10-10 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-10 06:00:00 UTC000
Oct 10, 06:002026-10-10 06:00:00 UTC2026-10-10 12:00:00 UTC000
Oct 10, 12:002026-10-10 12:00:00 UTC2026-10-10 18:00:00 UTC000
Oct 10, 18:002026-10-10 18:00:00 UTC2026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 11, 00:002026-10-11 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-11 06:00:00 UTC000
Oct 11, 06:002026-10-11 06:00:00 UTC2026-10-11 12:00:00 UTC000
Oct 11, 12:002026-10-11 12:00:00 UTC2026-10-11 18:00:00 UTC000
Oct 11, 18:002026-10-11 18:00:00 UTC2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 12, 00:002026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-12 06:00:00 UTC000
Oct 12, 06:002026-10-12 06:00:00 UTC2026-10-12 12:00:00 UTC000
Oct 12, 12:002026-10-12 12:00:00 UTC2026-10-12 18:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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That I'm not sure of, because this isn't my area, my info comes directly from youtubers working on this. But from what I understand, Bevy doesn't come with those things and they did not use something like Havoc, so AI had to translate them as close as it could to match the movement correctly. To answer your question, it seems like these decompiled game engines are not humongous by themselves. So I wouldn't be surprised if it could be done with Assassin's Creed. But a Youtuber did mention the games they are doing this with (MW2, Skate 3, Minecraft) are ideal starting points. https://github.com/vladtrc/iw4L
In 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
yep this stuff is super interesting. we're seeing rust rewrites of games like modern warfare 2 [1][2], and mashups with cod, minecraft, and skate 3 [3][4][5]. there is a large active discord community of gamers and modders sharing tips and guides on how to do this. none of them are really programmers, they're just sharing prompts and codex/claude code does the rest. i don't think llm's are capable of designing new games but they're wizards at reverse-engineering and mashing up existing games, which kind of makes sense for a computer. [1] https://github.com/vladtrc/iw4L [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UbADrcEW5w [3] https://github.com/chasmlol/2010-rust-rewrite-mashup [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/bevy/comments/1wuu7bx/are_you_seein... [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/bevy/comments/1wuag9d/skate_3_was_r...
In Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5
seeing what has been happening in the game modding communitiy, with people reverse engineering full rust rewrites of games like modern warfare 2 [1][2], or reverse engineering mashups with cod, minecraft, and skate 3 [3][4][5], the only defence against reverse-engineering literally all software will be to serve it from the cloud, and even that will not be enough. these people aren't even programmers, claude code just downloads ghidra and builds this stuff. the future of software is oss. unless governments lock down access to these tools to prevent this kind of reverse engineering. which is a horrible future to envision. [1] https://github.com/vladtrc/iw4L [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UbADrcEW5w [3] https://github.com/chasmlol/2010-rust-rewrite-mashup [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/bevy/comments/1wuu7bx/are_you_seein... [5] https://w
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