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Tomorrow Corporation Tech Demo

Allan Blomquist demonstrates the internal programming and debugging tools Tomorrow Corporation uses to make games, including live modification of a running game and time-travel debugging.

Why HN readers recommended it

Held up in debugger and tooling threads as an amazing ideal of a tight feedback loop and what debugging could be.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
retrogameinternals
Topic
debugging tools
Format
demo
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
5
HN mentions in dataset
7
Recommendation years in dataset
2023–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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  • > I should mention that the perfect debugger doesn’t exist It may not exist, but this demo has got to be the closest thing to the perfect debugger I've ever seen: [VIDEO]

    _gabe_ on Hacker News · 2023-03
    In What a good debugger can do
  • Allan Blomquist's tooling demo they mention is incredible, go watch it: [VIDEO] Really sells the value of having a tight developer feedback loop: it shows hot reloading for code and graphics, a reversible debugger, live profiling with flame graphs, a data inspector with data breakpoints, …

    modernerd on Hacker News · 2024-04
    In Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
  • This is a legitimate question but this was clearly generated using an LLM. To add something constructive, this demo represents an amazing ideal of what debugging could be: [VIDEO]

    superdisk on Hacker News · 2026-01
    In DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like today?

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