Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)(noelberry.ca)

411 points by alvivar 8 months ago | 193 comments

Blog post by indie developer Noel Berry describing how he makes video games in 2025 without a commercial engine, covering his tools and libraries.

Show HN: Making a cross-platform game in Go using WebRTC Datachannels(pion.ly)

60 points by valorzard 1 year ago | 2 comments

I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)(axleos.com)

260 points by codyd51 3 years ago | 40 comments

Video Games as Art(gwern.net)

88 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 57 comments

What game engines know about data that databases forgot(nockawa.github.io)

73 points by speckx 6 months ago | 36 comments

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)(all-things-andy-gavin.com)

209 points by davikr 11 months ago | 36 comments

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)(noelberry.ca)

411 points by alvivar 8 months ago | 193 comments

Blog post by indie developer Noel Berry describing how he makes video games in 2025 without a commercial engine, covering his tools and libraries.

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.

How to engineer an AI harness for game development(kylekukshtel.com)

151 points by kkukshtel 13 days ago | 73 comments

Blog post by Kyle Kukshtel exploring practical ways to make games more legible to AI agents and speed up agentic iteration in game development.

Fuck it, make it anyway(joelotter.com)

504 points by JayOtter 1 month ago | 495 comments

A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.

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.

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.