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Game Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)
Steamworks Development · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2015–2020).
SignalTube analysis
Among 52 other talk videos tagged Game programming & engines, the mean is 3.4 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 3.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2020; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 51 minutes 11 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-02-11.
- Channel / speaker
- Steamworks Development
- Verified runtime
- 51m 11s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-02-11
- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2020
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Game programming & engines. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)Current video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | 51m 11s | 2014-02-11 |
| Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025talk · Better Software Conference | 11 | 8 | 69% | No recorded overlap | 147m 34s | 2025-07-17 |
| RustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine Westtalk · Rust Programming Language | 9 | 9 | 69% | No recorded overlap | 42m 30s | 2018-09-06 |
| Jonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speechtalk · Alexandre Franco | 9 | 9 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 75m 51s | 2013-09-12 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Pygame Zero: Creating games without boilerplate”. Its short rationale: Shows SDL moving away from LGPL.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997”. Its short rationale: Segment on SDL's permissive license.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux”. Its short rationale: Ryan Gordon on porting games to Linux with SDL 2.0.