Handmade Hero Day 001 - Setting Up the Windows Build

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends the series as a thorough look at low-level game programming by someone with deep knowledge, offered free.

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

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Molly Rocket

Topic

game engine programming

Format

tutorial

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• After watching the first few weeks of Handmade Hero [1] I realised my idea of hard work and dedication was different to a lot of people I was trying to emulate. Doing this as a spare time, free project and the amount of knowledge and …

• Handmade hero [1] mostly, and sometimes Jonathan Blow's compiler programming streams [2]. Not all of these video's are equally interesting, but there's some real gems in there, e.g. where Casey (of HH) hand-optimizes his bilinear bitmap interpolation code (somewhere between streams ~115 and ~120 if …

• It's hard for me to recall how I learned because my first "game" I wrote was in '89 and I wasn't very old at the time. Maybe check out [VIDEO] -- I've watched a fair bit of it and many folks agree it's thorough and …