Ants Projects Hub

Anthony Schemel · Open Source

Ants Projects Hub

A home for the things I build — engines, games, emulation tools, utilities and more. Free, open, and downloadable.

24Projects

12Live now

3Desktop OSes

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21 October 2026

The playtime search that found nothing, and Pressless edits on the page

Twenty-one projects moved this week and two were quiet, against twenty and two last week. Six of them published releases with downloads attached: seventeen releases in all.

This week's thread is checks that passed without looking. A search filter that was ignored. A size test that passed because two different figures printed the same. A self-test that said "ok" while saving was broken. A Windows test that reported a pass when the game never started. And, the other way round, two faults in a RetroDB download that only filming a trailer found.

RetroDB published ten releases, 3.23.14 to 3.26.0, on the 15th and 17th, each for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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Engines & Graphics

Vestige Engine

A 3D game engine built from scratch.

Betav0.1.76WINLNX

frameledger

Finds out what is slowing down a game engine’s frames.

Coming soonWINLNX

Games

Games Hub

Fourteen desktop games in one small window.

Livev1.2.0WINLNX

DOOM Ants· fork of id-Software

A ray-traced reimagining of id's DOOM on modern Linux.

Betav0.7.4WINLNX

Hell's Gate· fork of florinp93

Dante's Inferno, rebuilt to run natively on PC, now buildable on openSUSE.

Early WIPWINLNX

UT Ants

Plays your Unreal Tournament maps on a modern engine.

Coming soonWINLNX

Emulation & Retro

RetroDB

A ROM library manager for 140+ retro gaming systems.

Livev3.32.0WINMACLNX

MAME Curator

Picks the best playable arcade games from a MAME set.

RetroArch· fork of libretro

My fork of the reference frontend for 100+ emulator cores.

Slipcase

Turns flat 2D game covers into realistic 3D box renders.

Livev1.3.1LNXWINMAC

Rusty PSN· fork of RainbowCookie32

Download PS3 & PS4 game updates straight from Sony.

Media

Snatch

A friendly desktop frontend for yt-dlp.

Livev1.2.0WINMACLNX

Album Builder

Curate albums from recordings, with lyric-sync and reports.

Betav0.9.6WINLNX

Desktop Utilities

Perch

Remembers every window's size and spot, with snap layouts.

Contact List

A secure contact manager with Google Contacts sync.

Livev1.2.2WINMACLNX

Rolodex

An encrypted credential vault with auto-masking.

Livev1.6.0WINMACLNX

finbreak

Breaks your finances into categories — private and offline.

Livev1.0.1LNXWIN

OneUp

One-click openSUSE updates from a single window.

demoreel

Record an app's demo video without filming your desktop.

Ants Terminal

A fast, modern terminal for Linux that makes Claude Code cheaper and easier to use.

Betav0.7.114LNX

Groundwork

Sets up a fresh openSUSE install the way you want, in one sitting.

LottoTracker

Catches the lottery win sitting unnoticed in your inbox.

Pressless

Write and publish your own website from your own computer.

Betav0.10.1LNXWIN

Local Web Server Manager

See which of your local web servers are actually running.

Early WIPv0.3.0LNX