Oversimplified History of Retro Game Consoles for Programmers(pikuma.com)

51 points by atan2 3 years ago | 3 comments

Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

18 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 4 comments

Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game(olano.dev)

136 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Godot for App Development(tiniuc.com)

32 points by tiniuclx 2 years ago | 12 comments

Verlet Integration and Cloth Physics Simulation (2022)(pikuma.com)

35 points by atan2 1 year ago | 11 comments

Show HN: A rudimentary game engine to build four dimensional VR evironments(brainpaingames.com)

30 points by teemur 1 year ago | 1 comments

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it(edw.is)

599 points by eliasdaler 2 years ago | 240 comments

Elias Daler's blog post on learning Vulkan and building a small game engine with two demo games in three months, with code on GitHub.

Game design is simple(raphkoster.com)

481 points by vrnvu 11 months ago | 142 comments

Blog post by game designer Raph Koster arguing that game design is simple, actually, laying out his view of its fundamentals.

Making video games (without an engine) in 2025(noelberry.ca)

482 points by selvan 1 year ago | 210 comments

Blog post by indie developer Noel Berry describing how he makes video games in 2025 without using a commercial game engine.

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary(popcar.bearblog.dev)

64 points by popcar2 12 days ago | 54 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI tools are enabling mass decompilation of video games, which the author sees as both exciting and worrying.