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Adriel Wallick

Personal blog · msminotaur.com/bloggamesprogramming

Adriel Wallick writes MsMinotaur, a personal blog at msminotaur.com about games and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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2014–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Adriel Wallick's post recounts how the Most Expensive Game Jam collapsed in a single day. Commenters value it as a first-hand account from someone who was there.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. /blog/?p=187
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. ginko · 2014-04-01Recommends
    > http://msminotaur.com/blog/?p=187 Really interesting read, but now my eyes hurt.

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  2. Submitted Game a Week: Year in Review as a story · 2 points

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  3. nl · 2014-04-01Recommends
    This is one of the most uplifting and positive stories I've read via HN. Whilst I understand that's probably not the most common take-away, I read it as a story of how software development is slowly changing to a field where sexism is no longer acceptable. I think it is fantastic that the developers stood up to Matti, and refused to give him the story he was looking for. People will continue to argue all they like o…

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  4. darksim905 · 2014-04-01Recommends
    Why not just go to the source of someone that was there? http://msminotaur.com/blog/?p=187 The sad part is, someone suggested to a few people on Reddit that people look into Game Jams if one is serious about coding games, stuff like that. Makes me much more skeptical to do that now.

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  5. I found these two articles on the subject alittle easier to follow: http://msminotaur.com/blog/?p=187 http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ZoeQuinn/20140331/214325/Unre...

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