78 stories tagged game-development, newest first.
219 points by maxilevi | 41 comments
GitHub repository for Project Hedra, a low-poly procedurally generated 3D open-world RPG and custom C#/OpenGL engine written by its author starting in high school.
79 points by rex64 | 23 comments
Blog post explaining how the original SimCity ran on a 16 MHz 386SX by spreading simulation work across frames, with similar examples from Assetto Corsa and Lumen.
58 points by ibobev | 2 comments
Catlike Coding tutorial, ninth in a Godot procedural GPU patterns series, showing how to make value noise tile seamlessly in a shader and wrap it around a torus.
51 points by ibobev | 10 comments
Annual progress report on Decker, a HyperCard-like multimedia tool, covering releases 1.61 to 1.71, gamepad input, Lil language improvements, and community highlights.
27 points by mellosouls | 39 comments
Edge magazine article examining the video game industry's crisis of layoffs and studio closures and how it might be fixed, featuring Tim Sweeney.
138 points by ibobev | 10 comments
A devlog post, part 34 of a series on the sea exploration game Around The World, about rendering a pretty sky.
80 points by g0xA52A2A | 28 comments
A blog post on demofox.org describing the double headed stack allocator, a memory allocation technique that allocates from both ends of a buffer.
151 points by kkukshtel | 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.
58 points by pavel_lishin | 34 comments
A.V. Club news article reporting that Epic Games' delayed Disney game featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters will become an "AI first" project, with employees told to use AI.
186 points by davikr | 136 comments
Blog post by Maurice Heumann describing using AI agents, consuming over 500 billion tokens, to decompile a first-person shooter game.
258 points by gregsadetsky | 100 comments
Blog post on Mark Green's Pixelatron site republishing a full 2001 interview with Giles Goddard about the making of Super Mario 64.
106 points by trollied | 85 comments
Landing page for Google Labs' Playground experiment, a tool for creating custom games in minutes.
598 points by Michelangelo11 | 113 comments
Pat Kerr's project history of the 2D vehicle physics simulation he wrote in 1996 that became the basis of Grand Theft Auto's vehicle system, with an interactive Motion Lab demo.
26 points by joegibbs | 7 comments
Hugging Face model card for TerrainSR, a diffusion model that upscales low-resolution terrain heightmaps (100m) to realistic higher-detail elevation data (10m).
51 points by paulgerhardt | 12 comments
A blog post on Behind The Code with Gerry about the Partner-N64 PC development kit used for creating Nintendo 64 games.
4 points by panic | 0 comments
A Box2D blog post on accelerating the separating axis test for collision detection by using inscribed spheres.
6 points by incrediblers | 7 comments
A blog post about designing and building text user interface games that fit within an 80x24 terminal.
159 points by czoido | 58 comments
Conan blog post explaining how to integrate arbitrary C/C++ libraries into Godot games via GDExtension and godot-cpp using the Conan package manager.
86 points by airhangerf15 | 7 comments
Blog post by Eniko Fox describing how she implemented software-rendered occlusion culling in her voxel game, Block Game.
114 points by keeda | 60 comments
Blog post about reverse engineering and modernising the old war game War of the Lance with AI, and what it suggests about the economic impact of transformers.
8 points by MikeHer | 2 comments
Blog post by M2H's Mike Hergaarden describing the self-built backend for crash reports, remote config, cloud auth and console ports used across seven games over ten years.
504 points by JayOtter | 495 comments
A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.
382 points by TylerJaacks | 206 comments
EVE Online dev blog post announcing the start of migrating the game's 2.4 million lines of Python 2 code to Python 3.
581 points by automatoney | 99 comments
An interactive write-up defining a custom color space for plausible, diverse skin tones, with a JavaScript color picker and a Python procedural generation algorithm.
453 points by atan2 | 231 comments
Dominic Szablewski's blog post on making a new Nintendo 64 game in 2026, following his port of a JavaScript game engine to C.
328 points by bobbiechen | 37 comments
Red Blob Games interactive article on improving A* pathfinding heuristics using landmarks (differential heuristics), with demos on Dragon Age maps.
341 points by ObviouslyFlamer | 235 comments
Minecraft.net article for a Java Edition snapshot release, which per the title switches the game to the SDL3 library.
464 points by makepanic | 105 comments
Blog post announcing the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine forked from Box2D with features like triangle mesh and height-field collision.
507 points by shadowtree | 252 comments
John Carmack's X post reflecting on early id Software mistakes: Quake's overambition, pushing staff too hard, and a flawed founder stock arrangement.
894 points by sklopec | 150 comments
Personal blog post by Marko Stanic about Catlantean 3D, a side-project game with early-1990s style graphics he plans to release on Steam.
400 points by speckx | 221 comments
Kotaku article in which video game developers explain how pausing is implemented in games and the odd tricks sometimes involved.
402 points by cl3misch | 202 comments
GitHub repository for LÖVE, an open-source framework for making 2D games in Lua.
557 points by mariuz | 153 comments
Blog post examining the technical optimizations behind RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999), based on the author's appearance on the German gaming podcast Stay Forever.
714 points by mwkaufma | 69 comments
Eric Lengyel's retrospective blog post on ten years of the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU and its licensing history.
449 points by PaulHoule | 56 comments
A TIGSource forum devlog post by the developer of Return of the Obra Dinn about spherically mapped dithering for a 1-bit first-person game; it was blocked by a Cloudflare check when captured.
411 points by alvivar | 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.
1060 points by cleak | 347 comments
Caleb Leak's blog post describing how he set up a system letting his dog 'vibe code' video games using AI coding tools.
569 points by linolevan | 185 comments
A blog post on the Sandbox Spirit site about how roads and intersections are designed and generated in games.
470 points by AshleysBrain | 68 comments
A Mastodon thread by Tom Forsyth recounting a time-travelling bug caused by a door in Half-Life 2 during development.
769 points by shdon | 140 comments
PC Gamer obituary reporting the death of Rebecca Heineman, game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion and LGBTQ trailblazer.
828 points by iamwil | 115 comments
A blog post describing how the author built a spherical, Minecraft-style voxel planet, shown with a rendered blocky globe.
324 points by maloga | 211 comments
Blog post by Mariano Gappa comparing building a card game in Go over three months without LLMs versus another in three days with LLM assistance.
320 points by 90s_dev | 109 comments
Launch blog post for 90s.dev, a web-based API and environment around a 320x180 canvas for building and sharing game maker tools and games.
482 points by selvan | 210 comments
Blog post by indie developer Noel Berry describing how he makes video games in 2025 without using a commercial game engine.
637 points by rc00 | 631 comments
A devlog post from the indie game studio behind Dead Money explaining why they migrated their game project away from Rust.
370 points by xd | 154 comments
Homepage of Defold, a free game engine for building high-performance cross-platform games.
1484 points by newobj | 340 comments
Show HN AMA post by a former Meta compiler engineer who, after being laid off, made the roguelike pachinko game Ballionaire, which sold ~200,000 copies on Steam.
506 points by memalign | 44 comments
Kenney.nl homepage offering thousands of free, donation-supported game assets, tools, and starter kits for game developers.
511 points by alexanderameye | 56 comments
A blog post explaining five different techniques for rendering object outlines in Unity games, with examples from games like Sable and The Last of Us.
322 points by lnyan | 74 comments
GitHub repository for VoxelSpace, a terrain rendering algorithm from the game Comanche implemented in under 20 lines of code with a web demo.
495 points by CharlesW | 101 comments
A TIGSource forum devlog post by Lucas Pope on stabilizing the 1-bit dithering effect in Return of the Obra Dinn so it doesn't swim with camera motion.
716 points by kretaceous | 352 comments
JetBrains Rider product page for the .NET and game development IDE, now marked as free for non-commercial use.
528 points by bpierre | 363 comments
Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.
415 points by JKCalhoun | 193 comments
A blog post by the author of Glider recalling unfinished Mac games he wrote decades ago, recovered from old hard drives and shared as disk images for emulators.
359 points by lostmsu | 148 comments
GitHub repository for a Flappy Bird clone for Android 5.1+ written only in C, with an APK under 100 kilobytes.
456 points by azhenley | 95 comments
Blog post by Chevy Ray describing how he used Rust tooling to create a megapack of 175 pixel fonts.
341 points by ibobev | 84 comments
A beginner-friendly Pikuma blog tutorial by Gustavo Pezzi explaining the theory and math of isometric projection and how it is used in game development.
361 points by sklopec | 142 comments
A technical article by Marko Stanić analyzing the Serious Engine's networking model, explaining how Serious Sam handled large numbers of enemies over 56k modem connections.
438 points by atan2 | 62 comments
Part 1 of an interactive tutorial series on 2D rigid body collision resolution for video games, defining the problem with an embedded demo.
617 points by celadevra_ | 179 comments
Product page for Picotron, Lexaloffle's fantasy workstation with a toy OS and built-in tools for making pixel art games, music and demos in Lua.
590 points by atan2 | 330 comments
Blog post explaining exponential smoothing as an animation technique for cameras, UI elements, and audio, with interactive examples and the underlying math.
366 points by ekianjo | 192 comments
Announcement of a free Godot Engine port for authorised Nintendo Switch developers, supporting projects made with Godot 3.5.x and 4.1.x.
352 points by the-smug-one | 80 comments
A Reddit r/aoe2 thread asking whether Age of Empires was written in assembly, with an original developer commenting on its use of assembly code.
376 points by breck | 67 comments
A chapter from an online book by abagames on the joys of making small browser games, citing the Small Game Manifesto and the author's 350+ games.
436 points by azhenley | 95 comments
Blog post explaining linear pathing, Dijkstra's algorithm, and A* tricks like implicit graphs and geometry-informed heuristics for monster pathfinding in an 8-bit game.
333 points by marconey | 122 comments
Valve's hour-long YouTube documentary marking the 25th anniversary of the video game Half-Life.
343 points by pjmlp | 159 comments
AMD GPUOpen blog post from the AMD Game Engineering team offering a beginner's guide to becoming a graphics programmer.
1269 points by klaussilveira | 144 comments
A former Rockstar North developer's blog post explaining that the moon in GTA III changes size when sniped because artists couldn't agree on its size.
572 points by hackerbeat | 281 comments
An X post by Javi Lopez describing how he built an Angry Birds clone, "Angry Pumpkins," using GPT-4 for code and Midjourney/DALL-E for graphics.
533 points by appstorelottery | 205 comments
A browser-based classic video poker game built in Godot, shared as a Show HN by a former Unity developer.
621 points by Morizero | 392 comments
Farewell letter announcing that the Boston Unity Group, the first official Unity user group founded in 2010, will hold its final event on September 27th.
622 points by TMM2K | 558 comments
Ramatak blog post arguing that Unity's switch from per-seat to per-install pricing shows why game developers should rely on open-source engines.
482 points by rapnie | 144 comments
Homepage of LÖVE, a free open-source framework for making 2D games in Lua on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, with download links.
567 points by drfreckles | 103 comments
Blog post by Pier-Luc Brault introducing a game where the player acts as an operating system, scheduling processes and managing memory pages.
351 points by DeathArrow | 123 comments
Free online reduced edition of Richard Fabian's book Data-Oriented Design, showing the table of contents and an introductory note.
587 points by Wouter33 | 300 comments
Reddit post in r/aigamedev where a developer shares Valve's rejection of their Steam game over AI-generated assets lacking clear intellectual property rights.
326 points by CharlesW | 36 comments
Homepage of GB Studio, a drag-and-drop retro game creator for the Game Boy, available on Windows, Mac and Linux via itch.io.
325 points by robobenjie | 74 comments
Blog post by Benjie Holson describing Dimension Hopper, a 2D platformer that uses Stable Diffusion and ControlNet to generate level art from depth images.