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Andreas Papathanasis
Personal blog · andreaspapathanasis.blogspot.comgamesbusiness
Andreas Papathanasis's personal blog at andreaspapathanasis.blogspot.com covers games and business. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about a pixel artist who renounced pixel art. The blog's posts are about pixel art and game graphics. The one comment only discusses the 'pixel tax' idea, without judging the writing.
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.
A blog about video game development
Most-linked posts?
- The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-03
What Hacker News says?
No, I'd say the pixel tax is a real thing. There is an attitude among many gamers and game producers that if a game doesn't have the latest and greatest definition of resolution, 3d graphics, high poly count, or latest-graphics-tech-buzzwords-du-jour, it isn't good, or at least, not as good as it could have been [1]. And I'm not making that up either. I used to hold that attitude myself. I recall back in middle scho…
Comment linking /2015/05/the-tech-arms-race-in-aaa-and-why-im.html
on “A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (2015)”Submitted The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it as a story · 189 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vainglory vs. Clash Royale, and the future of “hardcore” games on mobile as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we will never show ads in our mobile games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The attempts to bring “AAA quality” games to mobile – and why they are failing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data obsession and the politics of facts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can crunch ever be fixed in the games industry? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion