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Bruno Dias

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Bruno Dias writes Azhdarchid, a personal blog at azhdarchid.com about games and programming. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Delusions of a Protocol”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2025

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Bruno Dias's blog for its writing on games and game design, especially from a narrative angle. He is a former Narrative Designer at Failbetter, the studio behind Fallen London and Sunless games.

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.

Bruno Dias' personal blog.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Delusions of a Protocol
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-02
  2. GDScript: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. CocaKoala · 2026-08-21Recommends
    The author, Bruno Dias, has a blog[1] where he often discusses games and game design, especially from a narrative perspective; he worked as a Narrative Designer for Failbetter, the studio that did the Fallen London/Sunless Seas/Sunless Skies games. I check in on it somewhat regularly, he organizes his thoughts on the topic quite well. [1]: https://azhdarchid.com/

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    on “The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates”
  2. Submitted Microsoft is basically discontinuing Windows. What will happen, then? as a story · 43 points

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  3. Submitted A Landscape of Knowledge Games as a story · 16 points

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  4. Submitted Delusions of a Protocol as a story · 10 points

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  5. Submitted Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals as a story · 7 points

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  6. Submitted GDScript: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted GDScript: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted Delusions of a Protocol as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted The São Paulo Interpretation of Immersive Sims as a story · 1 points

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