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Indie game development Videos Recommended on Hacker News (38)

Indie game development is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 38 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 135 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Indie development: solo developers, small studios, game jams, shipping a game, Steam, game business, marketing indie games, devlogs, Vlambeer, Minecraft-like creators.

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.

Indie game development Videos Recommended on Hacker News (38)

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

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

Jonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech

The Engoodening of No Man's Sky

Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way

Jonathan Blow: Game design: the medium is the message

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes

EPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar Stalberg

Learn Low Poly Modeling in Blender 2.9 / 2.8

Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins | Noclip Interview

Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)

PRACTICE 2018: Joseph White

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

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

Hyperbolica: A Non-Euclidean Adventure [Old Trailer]

How to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit

Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation

Diablo: Original Game Development

Put Your Name on Your Game, a Talk by Bennett Foddy and Zach Gage

Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic - Hyperbolica Devlog #2

Zach Oakes - Making Games at Runtime with Clojure

HandmadeCon 2015 - Pat Wyatt

Creating Prelude of the Chambered

How Localizing Return of the Obra Dinn Nearly Sunk the Game | War Stories | Ars Technica

How I implemented MegaTextures on real Nintendo 64 hardware

The Next Major RTS Will Fail. This Is Why.

Making Metagun

Antichamber: An Overnight Success, Seven Years In The Making

Is a round Minecraft world possible?

Notch Coding Minicraft!

IRDC US 2015 - Brian Bucklew, Data-Driven Engines of Qud and Sproggiwood

Crafting A Tiny Open World: A Short Hike Postmortem

Godot Engine - Apps & Tools - 2022 Showreel

How to walk through walls using the 4th Dimension [Miegakure: a 4D game]

This game DISAPPEARS if you pause it!