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Game design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (65)

Game design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 65 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 220 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Game design: mechanics, level design, game feel and juice, balance, player psychology, monetization ethics, narrative design, Jonathan Blow, GDC talks, design theory and postmortems.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho: “Gotta be one of the best talks for anyone trying to make things interactive that also feel good.” — an HN commenter, 2016.

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12 mo on HN

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

grapefrukt
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
11 mo on HN

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

Dutch Game Garden
10 HN recommender · 2014–2025
12 mo on HN

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

DevGAMM
14 HN recommender · 2020–2025
8 mo on HN

Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way

GDC Festival of Gaming
11 HN recommender · 2018–2025
7 mo on HN

Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita

GDC Festival of Gaming
7 HN recommender · 2020–2026
7 mo on HN

'Diablo': A Classic Game Postmortem

GDC Festival of Gaming
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
7 mo on HN

Jonathan Blow: Game design: the medium is the message

CreativeMornings HQ
7 HN recommender · 2013–2020
7 mo on HN

Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite

Folding Ideas
6 HN recommender · 2019–2025
6 mo on HN

Jonathan Blow: Video Games and the Human Condition

rubbermuck
6 HN recommender · 2011–2017
5 mo on HN

DOOM: Behind the Music

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
5 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2017–2021
5 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

GDC Festival of Gaming
5 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

Nintendo - Putting Play First

Game Maker's Toolkit
3 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HN

Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins | Noclip Interview

/noclip
6 HN recommender · 2020–2022
4 mo on HN

Ross's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex

Accursed Farms
4 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HN

Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)

GameSpot
4 HN recommender · 2013–2025
4 mo on HN

Sid Meier's Psychology of Game Design

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2016–2019
4 mo on HN

Practical Creativity

GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2018–2026
4 mo on HN

How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
3 HN recommender · 2018–2026
3 mo on HN

Space Station 13 Review | AHELP: Clown Grief Pls Ban He™

SsethTzeentach
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HN

What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games

Razbuten
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HN

TUN: Un-Ruining the MMO

MrBtongue
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HN

Procedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man

GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HN

PRACTICE 2018: Joseph White

NYU Game Center
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
3 mo on HN

1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HN

Playing to Lose: AI and "Civilization" (Soren Johnson)

Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2011–2026
3 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout

GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
3 mo on HN

GDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"

GameSpot
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
3 mo on HN

Gambling and the desire machine | Pay to Win

Jimmy McGee
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HN

"Devs Play" S1E06 - Psychonauts "The SMK Speedrun" [1/1]

Double Fine
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HN

Ross's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex - Human Revolution

Accursed Farms
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HN

Let’s go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free-to-play

PocketGamerbiz
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HN

Sequelitis - Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X

Egoraptor
3 HN recommender · 2012–2020
3 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

How to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit

GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HN

Diablo: Original Game Development

jon d
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023