Computer games

Links about computer games that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 33
Candidates: 61
Types: 8
Median span: 7.2 yrs

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33 items

Hexagonal Grids (2013)

www.redblobgames.com Books & learning 16 submissions · 16 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2026-02-03

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Universal Paperclips

www.decisionproblem.com Tools, games & demos 29 submissions · 27 people · 8.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-02

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Open Source Game Clones

osgameclones.com Reference 11 submissions · 11 people · 14.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2023-12-27

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Game Programming Patterns (2014)

gameprogrammingpatterns.com Books & learning 14 submissions · 14 people · 14.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-05 Resurfaced 2024-02-21

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Regex Crossword

regexcrossword.com Tools, games & demos 30 submissions · 27 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-09 Resurfaced 2022-12-31

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Suicide Linux

qntm.org Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 16.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2026-02-16

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Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels

noclip.website Tools, games & demos 15 submissions · 15 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2025-12-19

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Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game

play.elevatorsaga.com Tools, games & demos 15 submissions · 15 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2022-10-18

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Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2026-04-30

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Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)

grumpygamer.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-09 Resurfaced 2024-07-22

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A guide to implementing 2D platformers

higherorderfun.com Books & learning 12 submissions · 8 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-05 Resurfaced 2024-09-27

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The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds

grantland.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 7 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-10 Resurfaced 2021-02-21

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Tough times on the road to Starcraft (2012)

www.codeofhonor.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2022-08-13

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Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing

veloren.net Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 7 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2025-03-29

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Godot Engine – Free and open-source 2D and 3D game engine

godotengine.org Software & code 12 submissions · 11 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2023-09-13

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LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua

love2d.org Software & code 9 submissions · 9 people · 12.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-13

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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

nee.lv Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-09

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Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)

pixelastic.github.io Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2021-04-11

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Amit's Game Programming Information

www-cs-students.stanford.edu Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2017-02-19

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A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2017)

github.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2023-01-19

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Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)

forums.tigsource.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-16

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Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders

github.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-02 Resurfaced 2023-05-26

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Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem

dolphin-emu.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-16

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Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python

github.com Software & code 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2024-07-07

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Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub

github.com Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-01

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Rooms and mazes: A procedural dungeon generator (2014)

journal.stuffwithstuff.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 4 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2022-04-20

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Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

play.date Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2021-06-08

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How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020) [video]

www.youtube.com Audio, video & images 9 submissions · 9 people · 4.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2022-08-31

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With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

www.protondb.com Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-01

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Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M

robertsspaceindustries.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-12 Resurfaced 2024-12-01

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Show HN: Video Game in a Font

www.coderelay.io Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-02 Resurfaced 2023-05-26

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GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy

www.gbstudio.dev Software & code 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2023-06-17

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RegEx Crossword

jimbly.github.io Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 3 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-10 Resurfaced 2025-10-28

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Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

github.com Software & code 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-07 Resurfaced 2026-04-30

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Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017)

forums.tigsource.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-03 Resurfaced 2026-03-16

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Suicide Linux

qntm.org Essays & writing 10 submissions · 10 people · 16.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-10 Resurfaced 2026-02-16

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Hexagonal Grids (2013)

www.redblobgames.com Books & learning 16 submissions · 16 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2026-02-03

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Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels

noclip.website Tools, games & demos 15 submissions · 15 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2025-12-19

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Candidates

Browse 61 candidates

Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)

codegolf.stackexchange.com Essays & writing 23 submissions · 21 people · 7.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-12-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Official SkiFree Home Page

ski.ihoc.net Tools, games & demos 13 submissions · 13 people · 16.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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PICO-8 – Fantasy Console

www.lexaloffle.com Software & code 17 submissions · 17 people · 10.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Can't Unsee

cantunsee.space Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-11-21

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Door Problem (2014)

www.lizengland.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 10.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]

www.graybeardgames.com Research & data 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-15

Needs:5 submissions

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Black Triangles

rampantgames.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 9.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

www.openra.net Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 4 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600

www.neocomputer.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 11.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-31

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Defold: 2D Game Engine by King.com

www.defold.com Software & code 11 submissions · 11 people · 10.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-13

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Command Line Murders

github.com Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-07-25

Needs:5 submissions

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Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL

schemaverse.com Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-11-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)

simonschreibt.de Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 8.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-19

Needs:5 submissions

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The Cutting Room Floor: Unearthing Unused Content from Video Games

tcrf.net Reference 8 submissions · 7 people · 13.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Alligator Eggs

worrydream.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 6 people · 13.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-01-18

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Mindustry – Open-Source Game

mindustrygame.github.io Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-22

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Software Library: MS-DOS Games

archive.org Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-06-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Zugzwang

en.wikipedia.org Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 12.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-05-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The genius of binary space partitioning in Doom (2019)

twobithistory.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-06-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Keep Out – WebGL Game

www.playkeepout.com Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 8.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-27

Needs:5 submissions

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PuzzleScript – an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine

www.puzzlescript.net Software & code 6 submissions · 6 people · 10.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-07-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games

www.darkpattern.games Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-11-16

Needs:5 submissions

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HyperRogue: A puzzle roguelike in a non-Euclidean world

roguetemple.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-11-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework

phaser.io Software & code 6 submissions · 5 people · 12.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-13

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Lou's Pseudo 3D Page (2013)

www.extentofthejam.com Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 11.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-12-18

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-07-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years

www.youtube.com Audio, video & images 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-06-14

Needs:5 submissions

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Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton

areweanticheatyet.com Reference 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-12-01

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C

github.com Software & code 4 submissions · 2 people · 4.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-04-09

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 submitters

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AI Programmer’s Bookshelf

alumni.media.mit.edu Reference 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-01-01

Needs:5 submissions

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Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

github.com Software & code 4 submissions · 3 people · 5.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-01-23

Needs:5 submissions

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Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

nobsgames.stavros.io Reference 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-11-27

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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TimeGuessr

timeguessr.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 5 people · 2.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-06-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart3 active years

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Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud

www.vice.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-17

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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Citybound – A city building game using actor-based distributed simulation

aeplay.org Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-08-14

Needs:5 submissions

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Games on GitHub

github.com Reference 5 submissions · 4 people · 7.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-01-09

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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It is as if you were doing work

pippinbarr.github.io Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-06-05

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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DOOM Captcha

vivirenremoto.github.io Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-03-28

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

slowroads.io Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (2009)

blog.wolfire.com Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-05-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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