Game Programming Patterns
Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystromby Robert Nystrom
Shares rank 21 of 115 programming books by recommenders
People call it hard to oversell and a great, helpful resource on game programming patterns, and praise the result of its Markdown-based presentation as beautiful and successful.
People call it hard to oversell and a great, helpful resource on game programming patterns, and praise the result of its Markdown-based presentation as beautiful and successful.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Highly recommended, hard to oversell
“I think it is difficult to oversell the bob nystrom game patterns book”
Comment from 11 Dec 2025 in “Patterns.dev” Helpful, valuable resource for learners
“Here are two resources I found quite helpful”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike” “That was a great resource.”
Comment from 17 Jun 2026 in “Epic Games announces Lore version control system” Beautifully made presentation and format
“the author used Markdown and the result was beautiful and successful”
Comment from 23 Nov 2025 in “Markdown is holding you back”
Other programming books people recommend
The four most recommended other programming books, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crafting Interpretersby Robert Nystrom | 60 | 4 | 94% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Clean Codeby Robert C. Martin | 31 | 87 | 26% | 9 | — | — |
| The Pragmatic Programmerby Hunt and Thomas | 28 | 1 | 97% | 7 | — | Approved |
| How to Design Programsby Felleisen, Findler, Flatt and Krishnamurthi | 18 | 2 | 90% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Game Programming Patternsby Robert NystromThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
4 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Here are two resources I found quite helpful”
“That was a great resource.”
“I think it is difficult to oversell the bob nystrom game patterns book”
“the author used Markdown and the result was beautiful and successful”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.