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 orderVery nice code quality. C gets a hard time and this code base highlights some of the modern features C is missing by its use of perfectly clear workarounds. E.g. The prefix “namespacing” done here works just fine, easy to understand. The go-style visibility approach is growing on me lately and it works well here. C does deserve some of the criticism right enough, e.g. the same macros re-defined in a few places - it’d be nice if c had…
Pulled the Everglory demo down on Steam Deck. Because of the small display on the Steam Deck, the text on the menu buttons on the right hand side were nearly indecipherable. I wonder to what degree game devs should be testing their games on a small display like the Steam Deck/Switch.
This appears to be a copy left attempt to build an engine capable of both Age of Empires (especially the 3d ones), Command & Conquer, and Warcraft 3 style games. Interested to see if it ever gets tot he point of running Warcraft 3 custom maps (multiplayer maps with custom code) perhaps through an import script.
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
- 3
- Total points
- 1433
- Total comments
- 357
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-31 | Show HN: Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in CFirst breakout | epermyakov | 144 | 25 |
| 2020-06-04 | Show HN: OpenGL Real-Time Strategy Game Engine in Pure C [38k SLOC C99] | epermyakov | 6 | 0 |
| 2021-05-12 | Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in CBest thread | epermyakov | 1102 | 262 |
| 2023-04-09 | Permafrost engine – An OpenGL RTS game engine written in CLatest 20+ point return | rysertio | 181 | 70 |
