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Eric Mellino

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Eric Mellino's personal blog at mellinoe.wordpress.com covers games and programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Building a 3D Game Engine with .NET Core”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2017–2017first – last linked?

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

Why HN links it

The linked post describes a hobby-level .NET Core game engine built as a personal learning exercise. One commenter links it to describe their own engine and points to Xenko as a more polished option.

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.

Games, graphics, and more with .NET Core

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building a 3D Game Engine with .NET Core
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. I've written an amateur, hobby-level engine, described here: https://mellinoe.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/net-core-game-engi... . This was more of a personal exercise for learning and experimenting than a serious attempt at game design, so the engine isn't that advanced. For something more professional and polished, there is Xenko, which runs on CoreCLR for some of its non-mobile targets. https://xenko.com/ Also, Unity…

    Comment linking /2017/01/18/net-core-game-engine/

    on “Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET”
  2. Submitted Building a 3D Game Engine with .NET Core as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Net Core 3D game engine as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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