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Doug McInnes

Personal blog · dougmcinnes.comgamesprogramming

Doug McInnes's personal blog at dougmcinnes.com covers games and programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2010–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts describe the author's own games, such as Dead Valley, an HTML5 GTA-style zombie survival game in a randomly generated world, with gameplay video. The comment only announces its release.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. My newest game finally released! Check this blog post for a video of gameplay: http://dougmcinnes.com/2012/06/26/html5-game-dead-valley/ Thanks!

    Comment linking /2012/06/26/html5-game-dead-valley/

    on “Dead Valley HTML5 game - GTA style Zombie Survival in a Randomly Generated World”
  2. Submitted HTML 5 Asteroids as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted HTML 5 Asteroids as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted MS Engineers Working on HTML 5 in IE - By Playing Asteroids as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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