1:01:04indie game brandingTalk
Put Your Name on Your Game, a Talk by Bennett Foddy and Zach Gage
GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommenders
Games & Game Development
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355 videos1:01:04
40:45real-time ray tracingExplainer
Exclusive: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition Analysis - The First Triple-A Game Built Around Ray Tracing
Digital Foundry
3 HN recommenders
1:06:05procedural world generationTalk
Procedural World Generation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 | Etienne Carrier | Houdini HIVE Utrecht
Houdini
3 HN recommenders
53:44
7:08retro graphics hardwareExplainer
How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo
The 8-Bit Guy
4 HN recommenders
12:20
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57:43game development historyTalk
Classic Game Postmortem: Alone in the Dark
GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommenders
11:11hauntologyExplainer
Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia
Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
3 HN recommenders
13:48jai programming languageTutorial
The Joy of Programming in Jai - Part 1: Hello World
Nuno Afonso
3 HN recommenders
1:22:59video game soundtrackMusic
Transport Tycoon 2014 Soundtrack (remaster with real instrument from original creator)
Arif Nur Rahman
3 HN recommenders
3:53:11shader programmingCourse
Shader Basics, Blending & Textures • Shaders for Game Devs [Part 1]
Freya Holmér
3 HN recommenders
59:24racket in game developmentTalk
RacketCon 2013: Dan Liebgold - Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!
Racket
3 HN recommenders
22:54magic the gathering turing completenessDemo
I Built a COMPUTER in Magic: The Gathering
Because Science
3 HN recommenders
47:42valve company cultureDocumentary
What's It Really like Working at Valve?
People Make Games
3 HN recommenders
16:38architecture of violence in games and schoolsCommentary
Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
Jacob Geller
3 HN recommenders
31:24game preservationCommentary
The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games
Accursed Farms
3 HN recommenders
5:22:14super mario 64 speedrunningDocumentary
The Complete History of the A Button Challenge
Bismuth
3 HN recommenders
4:01non-euclidean geometryExplainer
Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic - Hyperbolica Devlog #2
CodeParade
3 HN recommenders
47:11south korean gender politicsCommentary
Gacha Drama and the Korean Gender War
Moon Channel
1 HN recommender
37:34live game programming in clojureTalk
Zach Oakes - Making Games at Runtime with Clojure
ClojureTV
2 HN recommenders
24:56speedrunningDemo
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Speedrun in 22:38, live at AGDQ2013
CosmoSpeedruns
2 HN recommenders
24:48Sources and selection
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