# Red Blob Games

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Red Blob Games and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for clear, visual explanations of game and algorithm concepts such as pathfinding, Perlin noise and map labels, written for people who want to understand how things work.

## Why people recommend it

- Clear explanations of algorithms and concepts (3 comments): "an interested collection of articles on algorithmic concepts you might want to know for writing games" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372823)) "some of the best explanations of concepts like pathfinding, perlin noise etc" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327821)) "Red Blob Games has quite a few S-tier posts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227264))
- Strong presentation and visual teaching style (2 comments): "learn a lot from how they do their presentations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370051)) "Red Blob Games has quite a few S-tier posts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227264))
- Valuable resource for game developers (2 comments): "an interested collection of articles on algorithmic concepts you might want to know for writing games" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372823)) "red blob games is a treasure" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886457))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Red Blob Games", https://hackerapproved.com/p/red-blob-games/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).