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Games & Game Development

342 videos Hacker News recommends in Games & Game Development.

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8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box

GDC Festival of Gaming

569K views · 13 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

In Search Of A Flat Earth

4.9M views · 17 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) [OUTDATED]

5.5M views · 13 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!

1.1M views · 12 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho

617K views · 12 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

This Is Phil Fish

Innuendo Studios

1.4M views · 5 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

Jan Willem Nijman - Vlambeer - "The art of screenshake" at INDIGO Classes 2013

Dutch Game Garden

386K views · 10 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

Overwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode

GDC Festival of Gaming

196K views · 16 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

Google DeepMind

38.5M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)

316K views · 14 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

242K views · 10 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

RustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West

Rust Programming Language

152K views · 9 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry

SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering

279K views · 7 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica

5.2M views · 13 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games

11.5M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

Jonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech

Alexandre Franco

191K views · 9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

The Engoodening of No Man's Sky

Internet Historian

26.5M views · 9 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

Computer program that learns to play classic NES games

2.2M views · 9 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

Ideas about a new programming language for games.

531K views · 7 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins

4.2M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW

3M views · 9 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way

GDC Festival of Gaming

570K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

This is Financial Advice

8.5M views · 9 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian

Innuendo Studios

1.1M views · 7 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita

GDC Festival of Gaming

288K views · 7 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

People Make Games

7.9M views · 9 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025

Better Software Conference

931K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

'Diablo': A Classic Game Postmortem

GDC Festival of Gaming

1.1M views · 8 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

FIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)

3.2M views · 7 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

Miguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake #GodotCon2023

27K views · 6 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

QuakeCon Official

446K views · 6 HN recommenders · 2012–2018

Jonathan Blow: Game design: the medium is the message

CreativeMornings HQ

119K views · 7 HN recommenders · 2013–2020

Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite

1.7M views · 6 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C

991K views · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

Jonathan Blow: Video Games and the Human Condition

158K views · 6 HN recommenders · 2011–2017

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes

3.7M views · 6 HN recommenders · 2019–2026