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Show HN: Rusted Doom Launcher – Bringing Steam Experience to Doom Wads and Mods

https://github.com/stared/rusted-doom-launcher
1•stared•1h ago
Hi HN!

There are so many wonderful community-made maps and episodes for classic Doom. I wanted to play them, but didn't want to manually download WADs or mods and pass parameters to GZDoom.

The scene is active; see the yearly Cacowards: https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2025/.

So, I created an app for bringing the Steam experience to Doom. Since I have been using it for 2 months, I decided to share it here—it might be at a stage where it is useful for others.

It requires the GZDoom source port (or UZDoom) and the main Doom files (you need to get Doom from GOG.com or Steam).

Right now, it works on macOS with builds for Apple Silicon. However, since it is built with Tauri 2, it should be easy to make it work for Windows and Linux (contributions are welcome!).

If you want to play just one Megawad, I recommend Ancient Aliens by skillsaw (https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/87784-ancient-aliens-f...).

Looking for feedback!

Ask HN: Why is the $0 hijacking of intellectual labor so normalized in OSS?

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5•stopbulying•21m ago•3 comments

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