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Handmade Hero Day 001 - Setting Up the Windows Build

Molly Rocket · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Game programming & enginesC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

Day 1 of Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero, a live-coded game built from scratch in C on Windows. It reviews C on Windows, sets up a minimal build system and WinMain entry point, and shows a first MessageBox.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “the amount of knowledge and experience on-show was incredible”

    Free spare-time project showing incredible knowledge and dedication

    thorin, 2020-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: As a developer what are your aha moments?”

  2. “there's still a lot of interesting things to learn from watching these streams”

    Live-coded game from scratch with real gems despite questionable style

    w0utert, 2017-06 · Recommendation · in “Compiler Optimizations are Awesome”

  3. “I've watched a fair bit of it and many folks agree it's thorough and interesting.”

    Thorough, interesting series with a decent C introduction for game dev

    agentultra, 2021-10 · Recommendation · in “Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: handmade hero, c programming, win32, build systems, casey muratori

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