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Best Game programming & engines videos, as recommended on Hacker News

99 videos about game programming & engines that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2010 and 2026. Mostly talk, demo, interview. Channels that come up most: GDC Festival of Gaming, Molly Rocket, Ars Technica, Rust Programming Language. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is Overwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode: HN treats it as the best real-world AAA example of ECS and game netcode, and cites it constantly in discussions of data-oriented design.

• talkOverwatch Gameplay Architecture and NetcodeGDC Festival of Gaming · 16 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• talkRustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine WestRust Programming Language · 9 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkA Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized GeometrySIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering · 7 HN recommenders · 2021–2026
• interviewHow Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars TechnicaArs Technica · 13 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• talkJonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA SpeechAlexandre Franco · 9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
• talkIdeas about a new programming language for games.Jonathan Blow · 7 HN recommenders · 2014–2025
• talkExploring the Tech and Design of NoitaGDC Festival of Gaming · 7 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• talkCasey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025Better Software Conference · 11 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• talkMiguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake #GodotCon2023Godot Engine · 6 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• talkQuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack KeynoteQuakeCon Official · 6 HN recommenders · 2012–2018
• tutorialCreating a Doom-style 3D engine in CBisqwit · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2019
• demoInteractive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScriptBruce Hauman · 6 HN recommenders · 2015–2020
• talkDOOM: Behind the MusicGDC Festival of Gaming · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
• talkWhy can't you multiply vectors?Freya Holmér · 9 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
• talkRobocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global OffensiveGDC Festival of Gaming · 5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• talkAlex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From FailureMedia Molecule · 7 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
• demoMock Interview with Shawn McGrathMolly Rocket · 6 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
• talkEPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar StalbergBUas Games · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• demoTomorrow Corporation Tech Demoretrogameinternals · 5 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• talkI Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: ReachGDC Festival of Gaming · 4 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• talkJohn Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4Kostiantyn Kostin · 5 HN recommenders · 2013–2025
• talk8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2GDC Festival of Gaming · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• lectureImmediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005Casey Muratori · 5 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
• talkThe Road to PS5PlayStation · 6 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• demo.kkrieger - The FPS Game in 96KB (Full Gameplay)Daniel Hands · 3 HN recommenders · 2013–2026
• interviewHow Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM | War Stories | Ars TechnicaArs Technica · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• tutorialIntro to C on Windows - Day 1Molly Rocket · 4 HN recommenders · 2014–2022
• talkPitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)GameSpot · 4 HN recommenders · 2013–2025
• talkGDC 2018: John McDonald (Valve) - Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGOmax4warn · 5 HN recommenders · 2018–2026
• demoSimulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise)AngeTheGreat · 4 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
• talkHerbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation TechniquesRoguelike Celebration · 4 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
• explainerSurface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explainedrunevision · 3 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• explainerWalls, Floors, & CeilingsUncommentatedPannen · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
• documentaryHalf-Life 2: 20th Anniversary DocumentaryValve · 3 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
• demoPlaying a Neural Network's version of GTA V: GAN Theft Autosentdex · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• explainerSuperpositions, Sudoku, the Wave Function Collapse algorithm.Martin Donald · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
• talkProcedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-ManGDC Festival of Gaming · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
• talkQuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack KeynoteQuakeCon Official · 3 HN recommenders · 2011–2018
• tutorialHandmade Hero Day 001 - Setting Up the Windows BuildMolly Rocket · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
• demoDeepmind artificial intelligence @ FDOT14Elizr · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2016
• talkJohn Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013IGN · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2021
• talk#Gamelab2018 - Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmersGamelab Conference · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• commentaryRant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker ... or something.Jonathan Blow · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• demoNew Voxel Engine Reveal - Crystal Islands ExperimentJohn Lin · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• interviewJohn Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309Lex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• talkBob Nystrom - Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?Roguelike Celebration · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• talkAnimation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural AnimationGDC Festival of Gaming · 4 HN recommenders · 2021–2026
• explainerExclusive: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition Analysis - The First Triple-A Game Built Around Ray TracingDigital Foundry · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• talkProcedural World Generation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 | Etienne Carrier | Houdini HIVE UtrechtHoudini · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
• talkClassic Game Postmortem: Alone in the DarkGDC Festival of Gaming · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
• tutorialThe Joy of Programming in Jai - Part 1: Hello WorldNuno Afonso · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021
• courseShader Basics, Blending & Textures • Shaders for Game Devs [Part 1]Freya Holmér · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• talkRacketCon 2013: Dan Liebgold - Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!Racket · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2022
• talkZach Oakes - Making Games at Runtime with ClojureClojureTV · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
• talkData Oriented GUI in Rust by Raph Levien - Bay Area Rust MeetupRust Programming Language · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2020
• talkCppCon 2014: Jeff Preshing "How Ubisoft Develops Games for Multicore - Before and After C++11"CppCon · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2021
• interviewCrash Bandicoot Co-Creator Andy Gavin: Extended Interview | Ars TechnicaArs Technica · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• talkPitfall: A Classic Game PostmortemGDC Festival of Gaming · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• podcastJoe Rogan Experience #1342 - John CarmackPowerfulJRE · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2020
• documentaryThe Story of Another World on the Amiga | MVGModern Vintage Gamer · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
• interviewHandmadeCon 2015 - Pat WyattMolly Rocket · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
• demoiMUSE Demonstration 2 - Seamless TransitionsPeter Silk (KestrelPi) · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• talkThe Implementation of Rewind in BraidGDC Festival of Gaming · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• demoMarble Marcher - A Fractal Physics GameCodeParade · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• talkJonathan Blow - Jai Demo and Design Explanation (KEYNOTE) - UpdatedLambdaConf · 2 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• demoCreating Prelude of the ChamberedNizzotch · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
• talkDennis Gustafsson – Parallelizing the physics solver – BSC 2025Better Software Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• interviewHow Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding | War Stories | Ars TechnicaArs Technica · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• tutorialHandmade Hero Day 021 - Loading Game Code DynamicallyMolly Rocket · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• demoThe Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 ExperienceUnreal Engine · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• demoMaking MetagunNizzotch · 2 HN recommenders · 2010–2015
• explainerTomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVGModern Vintage Gamer · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2022
• talk2021: Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop - Andrew KelleyZig SHOWTIME · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• demoUnity DOTS vs Handbuilt: Sample ProjectNick Caston · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2021
• explainerFinding the BEST sine function for Nintendo 64Kaze Emanuar · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• talkHandmadeCon 2016 - History of Software Texture Mapping in GamesMolly Rocket · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
• commentaryJonathan Blow on scripting languagesJeru Sanders · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2022
• talkGuiltyGearXrd's Art Style : The X Factor Between 2D and 3DGDC Festival of Gaming · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• demoIs a round Minecraft world possible?Jeija · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2025
• talkThe Early Days of id SoftwareGDC Festival of Gaming · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2023
• explainerHow the Minecraft Title Screen Seed was FoundSalC1 · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2024
• demoUnreal Engine 4 - GT.TV Exclusive Development WalkthroughGameTrailers · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2016
• demoFeature Discovery Series Episode 3: AerodynamicsMicrosoft Flight Simulator · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2021
• demoFaking RTX Global Illumination vs. RTX | 100% Ray-Traced Game, Pt 1Gamers Nexus · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2019
• talkReboot Develop 2017 - Jonathan Blow, Thekla Inc. / Making Game Programming Less TerribleReboot Develop · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2020
• talkErik Jansson - GPU driven Rendering with Mesh Shaders in Alan Wake 2Digital Dragons · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
• talkGoogle I/O 2011: Kick-Ass Game Programming with Google Web ToolkitGoogle for Developers · 1 HN recommender · 2011–2018
• talkWhat VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years (Steam Dev Days 2014)Steamworks Development · 1 HN recommender · 2014–2017
• talkGame Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)Steamworks Development · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2020
• demoNotch Coding Minicraft!simme337 · 1 HN recommender · 2012–2022
• talkIRDC US 2015 - Brian Bucklew, Data-Driven Engines of Qud and SproggiwoodLogo “ND” Surströmming · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2024
• newsResident Evil Village PC DRM: Cracked Code Really Does Run Better - ConfirmedDigital Foundry · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2024
• talkKilling the Walk MonsterMolly Rocket · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2025
• talkAlen Ladavac - Taking CI and automated testing seriously - WebCamp Zagreb 2018WebCamp Zagreb · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2022
• talkRendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray MarchingGraphics Programming Conference · 1 HN recommender · 2024–2025
• talkWill Wright GDC 2005 Spore (The Future of Content) RemasteredZeusmonomon · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2026
• interviewHandmadeCon 2015 - Mike ActonMolly Rocket · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2024
• talkMultithreading the Entire Destiny EngineGDC Festival of Gaming · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2022
• demo800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutesMinecraft · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2023