Reading up on game-development
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- ADA Q&A: Is This Seat Taken? - Discover - Apple Developer
Poti Poti Studio's puzzle game Is This Seat Taken? blends logic puzzles with whimsical scenarios, focusing on assigning characters to preferred seats based on their quirks across buses, restaurants, and theaters.
- Lore | Next-Generation Open Source Version Control - Lore
Epic Games maintains Lore, an open-source version control system designed for scalable data and teams working on mixed code and binary assets.
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
In the May 2026 Ask HN thread, dozens of developers describe their current projects, including an AI-driven tabletop simulator, a Kagi alternative, and a FreeBSD release.
- Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
A free, book-length technical analysis dissects the 6502 and 68K assembler source code behind Atari's Tempest (1981) and Tempest 2000 (1994).
- A Decade of Slug
Eric Lengyel open-sourced the Slug GPU font-rendering algorithm a decade after creation, releasing it to the public domain despite having patent protection until 2038.
- Art of Roads in Games
Roads in city-building games require complex procedural geometry techniques like clothoid curves to create realistic, curved paths rather than simple straight lines.
- Show HN: The HN Arcade
HN Arcade is a curated directory of games posted on Hacker News, aiming to collect and showcase them in one place.
Takes
Introducing Geek Fighter! https://geek-fighter.vercel.app/ I built a retro 2D fighter game with all your fav tech leaders. Most of gameplay built with a single prompt than ran 4 hours! 🤯
@tareqismail
I built an engine for Fable to create its own self-improving NPC town with @threejs and it's actually doing it lol. Literally shipping its own PRs to advance the story and lore. Crazy.
@gill_works
Had Claude Code build a snake game where the snake becomes aware it is in the game and then... stuff happens. Some impressive creative decisions by the AI (& also some very AI ones), I just gave a first prompt and some feedback on the game as it went. https://snake-awakening.netlify.app/
@emollick