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Alistair Doulin
Personal blog · doolwind.com/blog · on HN as Doolwindgamesprogramming
Alistair Doulin writes Doolwind, a personal blog at doolwind.com about games and programming. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a game developer spotlight post and the contacts page while checking who a named person is in the Unlimited Detail thread. The comment says nothing about the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pragmatic Thoughts On Game Development by Alistair Doulin
What Hacker News says?
The contacts page lists "Greg Douglas" as CTO - sounds like it might be this guy: http://www.doolwind.com/blog/game-developer-spotlight-greg-d... Also, the same name appears against: - A C++ R-Tree ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree ) implementation: http://www.superliminal.com/sources/sources.htm (towards end) - A contributor to the GameMonkey script engine. I think it is legit, but the other shoe will drop when…
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on “Unlimited Detail Wants To Kill 3D Cards”Submitted How To Get In The Zone, And Stay There as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making An Indie Game In Your Spare Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Programmer Personality Test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual Reality Development Tips as a story · 1 points
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