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

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49 points | by ragnaroekX 7 hours ago

9 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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    • klaussilveira 1 hour 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!

      • ragnaroekX 1 hour ago

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

        • derwiki 1 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

            • 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.

                • klaussilveira 4 hours ago

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

                  • yuppiepuppie 3 hours ago

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

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

                    • 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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                    • beemboy 4 hours ago

                      Sweet memories...

                      • hexo 3 hours ago

                        again?