GDC Festival of Gaming — Best Videos According to Hacker News

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8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box

GDC Festival of Gaming

“I recommend this talk to anyone who is interested in the details and history of working on limited colour palette games!”

13 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

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Overwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode

GDC Festival of Gaming

“This Overwatch GDC talk is the best breakdown/example of data-oriented ECS in a AAA game that I know of”

16 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

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Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way

GDC Festival of Gaming

“this talk is legendary and inspirational to aspiring game devs”

11 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

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Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita

GDC Festival of Gaming

“Highly recommended if you want to dive deeper into the topic.”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

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'Diablo': A Classic Game Postmortem

GDC Festival of Gaming

“heartily recommended if you want to know about the human aspect behind game dev”

8 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

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DOOM: Behind the Music

GDC Festival of Gaming

“One of my favorite conference talks ever”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

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Robocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

GDC Festival of Gaming

“The presenter delivered the problem and solution approach so well I'd still like to work on something like this some time.”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

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Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization

GDC Festival of Gaming

“Check out this great GDC talk by Sid and Bruce on the history of the development of the game.”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

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I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach

GDC Festival of Gaming

“This talk from the Halo: Reach team might be one of my favorite game networking talks I've ever seen”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

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Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

GDC Festival of Gaming

“This is a much watch if MMOs fascinate you. They're very transparent. Absolutely great video.”

5 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

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8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2

GDC Festival of Gaming

“For an in-depth explanation, see this excellent GDC talk on its implementation in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

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Sid Meier's Psychology of Game Design

GDC Festival of Gaming

“More people need to listen to what Sid Meier has said on this.”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

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Practical Creativity

GDC Festival of Gaming

“I recommend his 2014 GDC talk, "Practical Creativity" [1], even to developers who are not interested in game development.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

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Procedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man

GDC Festival of Gaming

“There's a great talk about Procedurally Generating Manhattan for Spiderman that's worth watching”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

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1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

GDC Festival of Gaming

“They procedurally generated 1,500+ different iterations on top of the same Unity-based slots shovelware using noun/adjective pairs.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

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Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout

GDC Festival of Gaming

“GDC post mortems are amazing, especially the ones on Diablo[0] and Fallout[1].”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

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Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

GDC Festival of Gaming

“it's one of the better GDC talks”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

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How to Survive in Gamedev for Eleven Years Without a Hit

GDC Festival of Gaming

“you can redefine your idea of "success" a little and make a comfortable living”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

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Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation

GDC Festival of Gaming

“Here's a video I've enjoyed of David Rosen giving a presentation at Game Developers Conference 2014”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

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Put Your Name on Your Game, a Talk by Bennett Foddy and Zach Gage

GDC Festival of Gaming

“Great talk on that from the GettingOverIt/QWOP dev”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

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Classic Game Postmortem: Alone in the Dark

GDC Festival of Gaming

“There is a very nice presentation [1] in which Raynal shows some of the old tools that were used to create Alone in the Dark.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

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RimWorld: Contrarian, Ridiculous, and Impossible Game Design Methods

GDC Festival of Gaming

“Strong recommend, if only to understand how RimWorld was designed and built.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

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Pitfall: A Classic Game Postmortem

GDC Festival of Gaming

“I'm linking at the relevant timestamp, but the whole video is pure Atari 2600 goodness.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

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The Implementation of Rewind in Braid

GDC Festival of Gaming

“Here's a GDC talk about the rewind system in which he explains some of the hurdles he had to deal with”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

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Antichamber: An Overnight Success, Seven Years In The Making

GDC Festival of Gaming

“I really recommend watching it”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

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GuiltyGearXrd's Art Style : The X Factor Between 2D and 3D

GDC Festival of Gaming

“showing the lengths they went to achieve a high-res hand-drawn look while developing Guilty Gear Xrd.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

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The Early Days of id Software

GDC Festival of Gaming

“the rest of the talk is very inspiring - so listen to the hour-long video”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

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Crafting A Tiny Open World: A Short Hike Postmortem

GDC Festival of Gaming

“You might want to watch this for inspiration”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

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Multithreading the Entire Destiny Engine

GDC Festival of Gaming

“explaining how Bungie turned almost every part of Destiny's engine into a job graph that can be processed in parallel”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2022