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Game programming & engines Videos Recommended on Hacker News (118)
Game programming & engines is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 118 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 331 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Game programming: game engines, physics engines, rendering for games, Unity, Unreal, ECS, networking for games, John Carmack, Handmade Hero, multithreading, GDC technical talks.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Overwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode: “This Overwatch GDC talk is the best breakdown/example of data-oriented ECS in a AAA game that I know of” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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10 mo on HNOverwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode
GDC Festival of Gaming
16 HN recommender · 2019–2025
9 mo on HNRustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West
Rust Programming Language
9 HN recommender · 2018–2023
9 mo on HNA Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry
SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
9 mo on HNHow Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
13 HN recommender · 2020–2026
9 mo on HNJonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech
Alexandre Franco
9 HN recommender · 2015–2026
9 mo on HNIdeas about a new programming language for games.
Jonathan Blow
7 HN recommender · 2014–2025
7 mo on HNExploring the Tech and Design of Noita
GDC Festival of Gaming
7 HN recommender · 2020–2026
8 mo on HNCasey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
Better Software Conference
11 HN recommender · 2025–2026
7 mo on HNMiguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake #GodotCon2023
Godot Engine
6 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNCreating a Doom-style 3D engine in C
Bisqwit
3 HN recommender · 2015–2019
6 mo on HNInteractive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript
Bruce Hauman
6 HN recommender · 2015–2020
5 mo on HNDOOM: Behind the Music
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
5 mo on HNWhy can't you multiply vectors?
Freya Holmér
9 HN recommender · 2023–2025
6 mo on HNAlex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure
Media Molecule
7 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HNMock Interview with Shawn McGrath
Molly Rocket
6 HN recommender · 2017–2023
5 mo on HNEPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar Stalberg
BUas Games
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HNTomorrow Corporation Tech Demo
retrogameinternals
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HNI Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
5 mo on HNJohn Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4
Kostiantyn Kostin
5 HN recommender · 2013–2025
5 mo on HN8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2
GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNImmediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005
Casey Muratori
5 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HN.kkrieger - The FPS Game in 96KB (Full Gameplay)
Daniel Hands
3 HN recommender · 2013–2026
4 mo on HNHow Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HNPitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)
GameSpot
4 HN recommender · 2013–2025
4 mo on HNGDC 2018: John McDonald (Valve) - Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGO
max4warn
5 HN recommender · 2018–2026
4 mo on HNSimulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise)
AngeTheGreat
4 HN recommender · 2023–2025
4 mo on HNHerbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques
Roguelike Celebration
4 HN recommender · 2021–2022
4 mo on HNSurface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained
runevision
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNWalls, Floors, & Ceilings
UncommentatedPannen
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNHalf-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary
Valve
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNSuperpositions, Sudoku, the Wave Function Collapse algorithm.
Martin Donald
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNProcedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man
GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNHandmade Hero Day 001 - Setting Up the Windows Build
Molly Rocket
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013
IGN
3 HN recommender · 2014–2021
3 mo on HN#Gamelab2018 - Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmers
Gamelab Conference
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNRant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker ... or something.
Jonathan Blow
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025