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Harold Serrano
Personal blog · haroldserrano.com/blogprogramminggames
Harold Serrano's personal blog at haroldserrano.com covers programming and games. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Books I used to develop a game engine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his book recommendations for developing a game engine, and his post that introduced one commenter to quaternions via a recommended book. The game engine list is described as comprehensive.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I build game engines and share everything I know about game engine development.
Most-linked posts?
- Books I used to develop a game engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-17
What Hacker News says?
It's a comprehensive list of books. There's a link in the very first paragraph to an essential/recommended list: https://www.haroldserrano.com/blog/best-books-to-develop-a-g...
Comment linking /blog/best-books-to-develop-a-game-engine?rq=books
on “Books I used to develop a game engine”Submitted Books I used to develop a game engine as a story · 320 points
HN discussionI remember being introduced to quaternions recently by this post[0] which recommended this book[1]. [0]: https://www.haroldserrano.com/blog/best-books-to-develop-a-g... [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Quaternions-Computer-Graphics-John-Vi...
Comment linking /blog/best-books-to-develop-a-game-engine
on “Understanding Quaternions”Submitted How does a game engine work? an overview (2016) as a story · 164 points
HN discussionI remember being introduced to quaternions recently by this post[0] which recommended this book[1]. [0]: https://www.haroldserrano.com/blog/best-books-to-develop-a-g... [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Quaternions-Computer-Graphics-John-Vi...
Comment linking /blog/best-books-to-develop-a-game-engine
on “Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]”Submitted Books I had to read to develop a game engine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Before using Metal: Computer graphics basics as a story · 1 points
HN discussion