ElgenTidwell/Chisel

Games & graphicsC#

4.8 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 2, 2026, 07:21 UTC.

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About the project

Chisel is an open-source 3D game engine written in C# that follows a 2000s-style workflow. This repository hosts the core engine and tool code used by the standard SDK.

Useful for

Study the engine source code to understand its architecture
Fork the repository and adapt the engine for a custom SDK
Report bugs in the engine or default SDK via issues

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

3 stars so far today, about 39 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 6 days old and already has 71 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #173.
About 33 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 71
Today: 3 · ≈ 39 by evening
Forks: 8
Issues and pull requests: 9
Watchers: 3
Language: C#
License: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 1.0.1 · October 2, 2026
Created: September 26, 2026
Last push: October 2, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

October 2, 2026Top new repositories this week: #173

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