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PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima's 'Physint' on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines (slashdot.org)

2026-09-11 | get Death Stranding Director's Cut PS5 → | tags: playstation, hideo kojima, physint

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This Guy Built a Free Plugin That Provides Godot With Raytraced Sound (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-01 | get Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro headphones → | tags: godot, raytraced sound, plugin

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This 3D ASCII Cyberpunk City Should Absolutely Be Turned Into a Full Game (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: 3d ascii, cyberpunk city, game development

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Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: evolve game, civilization, incremental game

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Soup Raiders goes native: What you gain by building your own game engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: soup raiders, game engine, native development

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So, you want to make a game engine (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: unity, unreal engine, game engines

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Show HN: Minesweeper Raycasted (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: minesweeper, raycast, show hn

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Check out this nifty 3D Playdate game demo (engadget.com)

2026-07-22 | by Anna Washenko | tags: playdate, cristina ramos, mirror's edge

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A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk (techspot.com)

2026-07-20 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: floppy disk, 2p game arcade, game development

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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: floppy disk, game development, 2p_game_arcade

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Roblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile app (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-16 | by Lauren Forristal | tags: roblox, build, ai models

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The third Xbox price hike in 15 months raises all models by at least $100 (techspot.com)

2026-06-26 | get Xbox Series X Console → | tags: xbox, microsoft, game consoles

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Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System (slashdot.org)

2026-06-17 | get GitHub Desktop → | tags: epic games, lore, version control

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Epic Games announces Lore version control system (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-17 | get Unreal Engine Lore Tracker → | tags: epic games, lore, version control

15.

Curry Barker Has ‘Such a Cool Idea’ for ‘Obsession 2’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-15 | tags: curry barker, obsession 2, game development

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Pac-Man, but you're the ghost (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Pac-Man Ghost Plush Toy → | tags: pac-man, ghost ai, maze game

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Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get AI Model T-Shirt → | tags: anthropic, shepherd's dog, ai model

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Bitsy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-11 | get Bitsy Game Engine → | tags: bitsy, itch.io, github

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Bitburner, programming-based incremental game (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | get Bitburner Game Guide Book → | tags: bitburner, incremental game, programming

20.

A Markdown-based test suite (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | by Julio Merino | get Markdown Test Suite Book → | tags: endbasic, ai agents, space invaders

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Europe May Soon Get a Non-U.S. Alternative to Unreal Engine (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-09 | get Unity Software Development Kit → | tags: unreal engine, europe, non-u.s.

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The Visible Zorker Lets You Peer Under the Hood to See How Games Worked in the 80s (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-02 | get Vintage Text Adventure Game Kit → | tags: zorker, 80s games, game development

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Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With AI (futurism.com)

2026-04-24 | by Frank Landymore | get AI Game Development Kit → | tags: google cloud, ai in gaming, game development

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Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-16 | by Aisha Malik | get Roblox Developer Hub Kit → | tags: roblox, roblox assistant, ai tools

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Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | get Game Development Pause Button Kit → | tags: game development, game design, user experience

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I learned Unity the wrong way (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | get Unity Official Learning Kit → | tags: unity, game development, learning

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A Better Ludum Dare; Or, How to Ruin a Legacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | tags: ludum dare, legacy, game jam

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Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-09 | get Unity Game Development Book → | tags: bevy, game development, tutorials

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C# in Unity 2026: Features Most Developers Still Don't Use (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | get Unity C# Programming Guide → | tags: unity, unity 2026, game development

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Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-05 | get Obfuscated Game Development Toolkit → | tags: binary obfuscation, aaa games, game development