Tomb Engine - Hacker News

Posted by ibobev 4/14/2025

212 points | 49 commentspage 2

pull_my_finger 4/15/2025|

Not to be "that person" but in the game space there is already a "t-engine"[1], AKA ToME (Tales of Maj'Eyal) engine, for building rogue-likes in Lua. It seems to go by "t-engine" primarily, but it's begging for confusion.

[1]: https://te4.org/

philipwhiuk 4/15/2025||

It's hard to believe the assets they are using are properly licensed.

I give this project a couple of weeks (it would have been months but it's now made it to HN).

reassess_blind 4/15/2025||

I don't see a single screenshot of gameplay on the website. Is that to mask that it's infringing on IP? Looks cool.

rlexsu 4/15/2025||

I expect the video in homepage to showcase the engine but it just play BGM for 2 minutes....

kleiba 4/15/2025|

https://tombengine.com/docs/tomb-engine-beginners-tutorial/

anothernewdude 4/15/2025||

The website doesn't really explain what this is, or why it would be used.

kubsy 4/15/2025|

Tomb Engine is supposed to be a new Tomb Raider Level Editor engine.

It’s on repo’s readme.

geor9e 4/15/2025|

How are they avoiding the intellectual property issues?

SuperNinKenDo 4/15/2025|

The code wouldn't contain any IP. You would need the original media files to play the actual games. As long as there's no code taken from the original code, there's unlikely to be serious IP issues.

EDIT: No! After browsing the website a bit, the developers actually explicitly mention that you should use their media and not a rip of the original assets. Bizarre.

bobajeff 4/15/2025||

I'm guessing it still infringes on copyright simply because that's clearly Laura Croft and probably other characters that are similar, but not legally distinct, from the original game?