Hacker News with Generative AI: Game Development

Show HN: Curved Space Shader in Three.js (via 4D sphere projection) (github.com/bntre)
This vertex shader was first written in HLSL for the Unity game Sfera: https://bntr.itch.io/sfera. Now it's rewritten in GLSL for three.js.
3D Graphics, WebGL, Open Source, Game Development
62 points by bntr 1 day ago | 23 comments
Show HN: Evolved.lua – An Evolved Entity Component System for Lua (github.com/BlackMATov)
Evolved ECS (Entity-Component-System) for Lua
Lua, Game Development, Programming Languages
53 points by blackmat 2 days ago | 16 comments
Creating Lighting in a 2D Game (dorf-rts.com)
While you may think of 2D games as inherently possessing no lighting functionality, or at least, limited lighting functionality, this isn’t necessarily the case.
Game Development, 2D Graphics, Lighting
8 points by klaussilveira 3 days ago | 2 comments
A bestiary of mathematical functions for systems designers (brunodias.dev)
Whether your game surfaces its numbers to the player or not, odds are it has underlying systems that rely on them, and you use functions to determine how those numbers affect each other. In other words, a mathematical function is usually at the core of the answer to a bunch of frequent game design questions.
Game Development, Mathematics, Systems Design
8 points by fanf2 3 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web (90s.dev)
I’ve mentioned this a bunch on HN and I’ve been working on it nonstop since about February. So I’m pretty excited to finally make it public.
Web Development, Game Development, Retro Gaming
347 points by 90s_dev 3 days ago | 111 comments
Ogmo – free, open source, 2D level editor (ogmo-editor-3.github.io)
OGMO Editor is a free, open source, project oriented level editor made for indie game developers by indie game developers.
Game Development, Open Source, Tools, Level Design
83 points by aeontech 3 days ago | 11 comments
Making video games (without an engine) in 2025 (noelberry.ca)
It's 2025 and I am still making video games, which according to archive.org is 20 years since I started making games! That's a pretty long time to be doing one thing...
Game Development, Video Games, Programming
559 points by selvan 3 days ago | 244 comments
Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation (moonside.games)
As a game developer who works primarily in frameworks instead of engines, one of the biggest pain points is the need to render on multiple platforms efficiently.
Game Development, Graphics, Optimization, Shaders
91 points by birdculture 4 days ago | 48 comments
Show HN: A Wolfenstein3D-like raycaster made in Windows Batch (github.com/nTh0rn)
A Wolfenstein3D-like raycaster made in Windows Batch.
Game Development, Windows, Retro Gaming
17 points by nthornton 5 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Mouse Escape – A game I made with my dad (roadcrosser.com)
Help the little mouse eat all 10 cheeses 🧀 and escape the messy mansion through the door 🚪!Avoid the playful kids 👶 and the grumpy adults 🧑.
Game Development, Indie Games, Family Projects
10 points by EvilDeadlyMice 5 days ago | 5 comments
SDL3 examples: Full game and app demos (libsdl.org)
SDL3 examples: Full game and app demos
Game Development, Software, Libraries, Programming, SDL
11 points by xeonmc 7 days ago | 2 comments
How to build a game without spending euros and hours (fika.bar)
This is my series of blog posts describing how I built my game Whatajong.
Game Development, Tutorials, Free Resources
4 points by masylum 7 days ago | 1 comments
Pathfinding (itch.io)
Hello! I've recently been working on the pathfinding for NPCs in my game, which is something I've been looking forward to for a while now since it's a nice chunky problem to solve. I thought I'd write up this post about how I went about it all.
Game Development, Pathfinding, Algorithms
155 points by sebg 8 days ago | 46 comments
Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer (easel.games)
Easel is a 2D game programming language that makes multiplayer as easy as singleplayer.
Game Development, Multiplayer Games, Programming Languages
95 points by BSTRhino 9 days ago | 45 comments
Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes (steampowered.com)
Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects.
Programming, Puzzle Games, Game Development, 3D Graphics
138 points by poetril 9 days ago | 30 comments
Show HN: MMORPG prototype inspired by World of Warcraft (github.com/nickyvanurk)
Everwilds is a prototype and reference project that demonstrates how MMORPGs like World of Warcraft are programmed, focusing primarily on networking and netcode architecture.
MMORPGs, Game Development, Networking
28 points by nickyvanurk 11 days ago | 9 comments
Web .NET Prototype – Godot Engine (godotengine.org)
On May 6, during my State of Godot and the Web talk, I revealed a world premiere to the GodotCon attendees. It was something some thought impossible, and others were resigned to not seeing during their lifetime.
Web Development, Game Development, Godot Engine
5 points by npinsker 13 days ago | 1 comments
RPG in a Box (rpginabox.com)
RPG in a Box lets you easily turn your stories and ideas into games and other interactive experiences!
RPG, Game Development, Interactive Experiences
316 points by skibz 13 days ago | 77 comments
Building a bare-metal bootable game for Raspberry Pi in C# (migeel.sk)
With the addition of native AOT in .NET 7, it became possible to compile C# into native code that doesn’t need a virtual machine to run.
.NET, Raspberry Pi, Game Development, C#
8 points by shakna 13 days ago | 0 comments
Optimizing an HTML5 game engine using composition over inheritance (radicalfishgames.com)
We started with HTML5 game development around the end of 2011. We bought an impact.js license and started working on CrossCode. And since CrossCode demanded 3D collision, we modified the engine – and continued doing so until almost every nook and cranny was changed in one way or the other. So it’s safe to say that we did not only develop a game but a whole game engine with it.
Game Development, HTML5, Software Engineering, Optimization, Inheritance
7 points by JSLegendDev 14 days ago | 0 comments
Cogentcore: Open-source framework for building multi-platform apps with Go (github.com/cogentcore)
Cogent Core is a free and open source framework for building powerful, fast, elegant 2D and 3D apps that run on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and web with a single Go codebase, allowing you to Code Once, Run Everywhere (Core). See the Cogent Core Website for more information, including extensive documentation and interactive examples you can directly edit and run. The website itself is a Cogent Core app running on the web using wasm.
Open Source, Go, Cross-Platform Development, Web Development, Game Development
34 points by kristianp 14 days ago | 16 comments
Level-5 CEO says games being made 80-90% by AI "aesthetic sense" a must for devs (automaton-media.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Game Development
16 points by msephton 15 days ago | 10 comments
2.5D Rendering on PlayDate (ligeiagames.com)
Since Castle Kellmore released on Playdate, I have had a lot of interest in the technical aspects of its rendering system. So I thought I would give a brief insight into how I made it look as good as possible, while (mostly) keeping to 50 frames per second.
Game Development, Playdate, 2.5D Rendering
47 points by todsacerdoti 15 days ago | 3 comments
Multi-Agent Coordination in Factorio: FLE v0.2.0 (jackhopkins.github.io)
Game Development, Factorio, AI, Multi-Agent Systems
13 points by noddybear 15 days ago | 5 comments
VVVVVV Source Code (github.com/TerryCavanagh)
This is the source code to VVVVVV, the 2010 indie game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Magnus Pålsson. You can read the announcement of the source code release on Terry's blog!
Indie Games, Source Code, Game Development
446 points by radeeyate 16 days ago | 93 comments
Xogot: Godot for iPad (la-terminal.net)
We’re thrilled to announce that Xogot, our native port of the Godot game engine for iPad, is now available on the Apple App Store!
Godot Engine, Mobile Gaming, iPad, Game Development
11 points by goranmoomin 17 days ago | 1 comments
'It is touching and stupid': Katamari Damacy creator on his new game (pcgamer.com)
Video Games, Game Development, Interviews
19 points by ramesh31 17 days ago | 0 comments
MTerrain: Optimized terrain system and editor for Godot (github.com/mohsenph69)
MTerrain is an optimized terrain system/editor for Godot Engine.
Game Development, Godot Engine, Terrain Generation, Game Engines, Software
91 points by klaussilveira 17 days ago | 9 comments
Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps (github.com/heroiclabs)
Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.
Game Development, Networking, Real-time Applications
32 points by icar 18 days ago | 2 comments
Load-Store Conflicts (zeux.io)
meshoptimizer implements several geometry compression algorithms that are designed to take advantage of redundancies common in mesh data and decompress quickly - targeting many gigabytes per second in decoding throughput.
Computer Graphics, Optimization, Game Development, Data Compression
117 points by ashvardanian 19 days ago | 5 comments