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How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding | War Stories | Ars Technica
Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle talks about how pathfinding was solved in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, in an Ars Technica War Stories episode. It also touches on other challenges in Westwood's RTS games.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as an accessible, non-technical look at real game pathfinding problems from a developer who built them.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Ars Technica
- Topic
- game pathfinding
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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With regard to pathfinding, there is this great video on some of their challenges at the time [1]. 1. [VIDEO]
imjasonmiller on Hacker News · 2020-05
In EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3You're probably looking for something more detailed and implementation-focused, but Ars Technica had a series of 10 minute videos where they interviewed developers about technical challenges. E.g. they had one on pathfinding and CD video in second generation Westwood RTS games [1] [1] [VIDEO]
saithound on Hacker News · 2025-07
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