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Adrian Hon
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Adrian Hon writes Have You Played?, a personal blog at adrianhon.substack.com about games and writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Adrian Hon's Substack writes about game design and mechanics, with a weekly look at a newer game. HN readers link a long writeup on Disney's Galactic Starcruiser as an interesting analysis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The games you should (and shouldn't) play, and how to think about them.
Most-linked posts?
- Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-07
What Hacker News says?
The parks are a very particular thing, obviously oriented towards children. But recently some people have been talking about how they might offer "live experiences" that go beyond that. Disney just shut down the Galactic Starcruiser, a two-day immersive Star Wars LARP experience which was weirdly mis-marketed as a hotel. Adrian Hon has a long, interesting writeup on it and suggests that future versions could be much…
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on “Disney’s Taylor Swift Era”Submitted Mars After Midnight – Lucas Pope's new gloriously weird "happy dad" game as a story · 14 points
HN discussionhttps://mssv.net Writing about games and technology, with the occasional sci-fi short story and politics thrown in. https://adrianhon.substack.com I play a newish game every week and talk about its mechanics, game design, and what makes it interesting.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Squid Game Immersive Gamebox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honkai: Star Rail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser as a story · 1 points
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