Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderMany companies in the games industry have settled on using Perforce or SVN (or more recently Plastic DVCS) internally as, out of the box, it can handle both code and non-code assets (i.e. large binary files) well in tandem. Git has problems with the latter - people have tried to correct this with solutions like git-annex and git-LFS but these have failed to catch on thus far.
Project is seemingly dead with the latest commit being from 2018. Two major games with code on github I can think of are Amnesia: The Dark Descent (1) and Celeste (2) (1) https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent (2) https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 380
- Total comments
- 35
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-03 | Open source games and game developer resources on GitHub | akien-tor | 12 | 0 |
| 2016-10-24 | Games on GitHubFirst breakout · Best thread | nodivbyzero | 195 | 26 |
| 2021-01-09 | Games on GitHub – A list of popular/awesome video games hosted on GitHubLatest 20+ point return | wcerfgba | 168 | 9 |
| 2022-10-26 | Games on GitHub | pabs3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-03-20 | Games on GitHub | pabs3 | 3 | 0 |