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.