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Andrew Russell's personal blog at andrewrussell.net covers games and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “How 2.5D Sorting Works in River City Ransom: Underground”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2016–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

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Why HN links it

An HN commenter links this blog's post and video on how 2.5D sprite sorting works in River City Ransom Underground, as related reading on sorting isometric boxes in the correct order.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How 2.5D Sorting Works in River City Ransom: Underground
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. If you're interested in this topic, Andrew Russell recently wrote a blog post and made a video about how they sort sprites in River City Ransom Underground. It's even more complicated because the sprites aren't necessarily simple boxes. http://andrewrussell.net/2016/06/how-2-5d-sorting-works-in-r... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssrkq6_6JYU&t=8m48s

    Comment linking /2016/06/how-2-5d-sorting-works-in-river-city-ransom-underground/

    on “Drawing isometric boxes in the correct order”
  2. Submitted How 2.5D Sorting Works in River City Ransom: Underground as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How 2.5D Sorting Works in River City Ransom: Underground as a story · 1 points

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