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Best Game programming & engines Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 53 Game programming & engines talks from a 113-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025, RustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West, and Jonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech. The broader topic archive has 705 labeled comments across 2010–2026, but this list only includes videos classified as talks. Each row shows its recorded recommendation count and a reason based on its tags and HN history. Use the recent-video archive to browse every format by latest HN mention instead.

  1. 1
    Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025

    11 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software architecture & design; the recorded mentions span 2025–2026.

    11 recommenders
  2. 2
    RustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    9 recommenders
  3. 3
    Jonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Indie game development; the recorded mentions span 2015–2026.

    9 recommenders
  4. 4
    Why can't you multiply vectors?

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Pure mathematics; the recorded mentions span 2023–2025.

    9 recommenders
  5. 5
    A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer graphics & rendering; the recorded mentions span 2021–2026.

    7 recommenders
  6. 6
    Ideas about a new programming language for games.

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Programming language design; the recorded mentions span 2014–2025.

    7 recommenders
  7. 7
    Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2020–2026.

    7 recommenders
  8. 8
    Alex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer graphics & rendering; the recorded mentions span 2017–2026.

    7 recommenders
  9. 9
    Miguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake #GodotCon2023

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2023–2026.

    6 recommenders
  10. 10
    QuakeCon 2012 - John Carmack Keynote

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Tech pioneers & interviews; the recorded mentions span 2012–2018.

    6 recommenders
  11. 11
    The Road to PS5

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2020–2023.

    6 recommenders
  12. 12
    Robocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2021–2025.

    5 recommenders
  13. 13
    John Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Tech pioneers & interviews; the recorded mentions span 2013–2025.

    5 recommenders
  14. 14
    DOOM: Behind the Music

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Music theory, synthesis & production; the recorded mentions span 2017–2023.

    4 recommenders
  15. 15
    EPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar Stalberg

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2020–2024.

    4 recommenders
  16. 16
    I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2022–2025.

    4 recommenders
  17. 17
    8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2020–2025.

    4 recommenders
  18. 18
    Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game history & retro gaming; the recorded mentions span 2013–2025.

    4 recommenders
  19. 19
    Herbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2021–2022.

    4 recommenders
  20. 20
    Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2021–2026.

    4 recommenders
  21. 21
    Procedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2019–2022.

    3 recommenders
  22. 22
    QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Tech pioneers & interviews; the recorded mentions span 2011–2018.

    3 recommenders
  23. 23
    John Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2014–2021.

    3 recommenders
  24. 24
    #Gamelab2018 - Jon Blow's Design decisions on creating Jai a new language for game programmers

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Programming language design; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    3 recommenders
  25. 25
    Bob Nystrom - Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2020–2026.

    3 recommenders