23 stories tagged game-engines, newest first.
12 points by vblanco | 2 comments
GitHub repository for REDox, Capcom's open-source high-performance token-based structured data engine for .NET, a core component of its REX game engine.
45 points by a1r | 6 comments
A Games Explained minisite explaining how the 1985 Commodore 64 game Mercenary works, including its rendering of the city of Targ, with source code and maps.
538 points by bauc | 493 comments
GameFromScratch news article reporting that Microsoft has laid off most or all of the idTech engine team at id Software.
389 points by Stevvo | 138 comments
GamesIndustry.biz feature interviewing Fenris Creations' Ben Hunter on open-sourcing EVE Online's Carbon engine, covering security concerns, LLM coding, and Godot.
480 points by pjmlp | 311 comments
PC Gamer news article reporting that the open source Godot game engine will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions.
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.
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.
413 points by klaussilveira | 84 comments
Code repository page for a clean-room reimplementation of Half-Life 2 running on the Quake 1 engine, blocked by an Anubis bot-check screen.
390 points by MaximilianEmel | 134 comments
Facepunch's s&box news post for the November 26, 2025 update announcing that the s&box game engine is now open source.
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.
463 points by cempaka | 128 comments
Blog post by a VideoLAN developer describing how Unity banned the open-source VLC for Unity integration from its Asset Store, alleging a double standard on open-source licensing.
348 points by whalee | 261 comments
GitHub pull request from an Apple visionOS engineer adding native visionOS platform support to the Godot game engine.
352 points by pierremenard | 169 comments
A 2016 Unity engineering blog post recounting how developers tracked down a memory corruption bug where an unknown source wrote the value 2 into the stack.
396 points by todsacerdoti | 72 comments
A blog post describing the two-year effort to port the SBCL Common Lisp runtime to the Nintendo Switch so the Trial game engine can run on it.
346 points by huhtenberg | 61 comments
Blog post describing a voxel displacement renderer that modernizes the retro 3D aesthetic; the page returned a 502 Bad Gateway error when captured.
![Screenshot of media.ccc.de: Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/5/17/8b82c2ee-861b-48ff-8fb6-b05da680ce74.jpg)
563 points by robin_reala | 161 comments
Video of an MCH2022 conference talk by Luke Gotszling exploring what happens to the Doom game engine when the value of pi is changed.
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.
396 points by j_maffe | 81 comments
W4 Games announces a $15M funding round to support commercial video game development services built around the open-source Godot Engine.
427 points by vblanco | 233 comments
Remedy Entertainment article describing the new Northlight engine technology used to build Alan Wake 2.
842 points by AndrewKemendo | 362 comments
GamesBeat article reporting that John Riccitiello stepped down as Unity CEO following backlash over the company's runtime pricing changes.
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.
545 points by agluszak | 140 comments
GamerBraves news article reporting that Unity quietly deleted its GitHub repository tracking Terms of Service changes and updated its license.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Quake's lightning gun bug explained [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/6/15/2993bf3d-760a-4a93-9c49-19bf9b15c631.jpg)
382 points by henning | 172 comments
YouTube video by Matt's Ramblings explaining the code behind Quake's lightning gun bug that lets it shoot through walls.