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An open source implementation of Icefrog's DotA, with a pretty amazing engine. Builds in 3 minutes flat; cross-platform.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2023-06-04 · latest 2026-08-20

Mentions per year 6 mentions · busiest year 2023 (5)
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  1. Sure did :) it was one of the few times when I worked on a product I truly loved. https://github.com/shawwn/noh
    comment by sillysaurusx · 2026-08-20 · in Incident with Github.com [resolved]
  2. …to Heroes of Newerth (a dota 2 competitor) after the company died (after dota 2 pulverized them). https://github.com/shawwn/noh
    comment by sillysaurusx · 2023-12-25 · in GTA 5 source code leaks online
  3. …from the parent game. I’ve been trying to fix this. It’s not quite ready for showing, but whatever: https://github.com/shawwn/noh I used to work on Heroes of Newerth, a dota clone. The parent company (S2 Games) sold it to Garena, who shut…
  4. …generated music. That’s fairly low on the priority list for now, but it might preempt other things. https://github.com/shawwn/noh To be immodest for a moment, my work serves as an example that it’s possible to do it, and better than anyone…
  5. I’m more interested in the reverse. I’ve been building (resurrecting?) a game engine https://github.com/shawwn/noh and I was looking forward to my new M2 primarily so that I could finally do cross platform gamedev on a single machine. Mac,…
  6. …themselves, learn unity, or learn unreal engine. I’ve been putting together an alternative. https://github.com/shawwn/noh It’s frankly amazing to work with a production grade engine that compiles in three minutes. I wouldn’t trade it for…