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Games by Mason
Company blog · gamesbymason.com/bloggamesprogramming
Games by Mason is the company blog at gamesbymason.com, writing about games and programming. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “ZCS – An Entity Component System in Zig”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Games by Mason's posts on game development and Apple hardware for gamedev, plus tech-industry predictions. One commenter says the author called a Microsoft Linux move early.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Games by Mason is an independent game studio.
Most-linked posts?
- ZCS – An Entity Component System in Zig4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-12
- Statically Linking PipeWire2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-01
- Prediction: Microsoft Is Going to Do the Funniest Thing Imaginable2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-18
What Hacker News says?
From what I gather from x.com gamedev corner of the web and elsewhere [1] is that Apple hardware is completely unusable for them still, or even more so after switching to alien ARM arch relative to desktop x86-64 PC. I wish Apple would invest in gaming, so that we won't have such a capable hardware allocating puny market-share of only 2% according to Steam survey. [2] [1] https://gamesbymason.com/2023/08/21/way-of-r…
Comment linking /2023/08/21/way-of-rhea-linux/
on “New Mac Mini with M4”Submitted Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal as a story · 149 points
HN discussionhttps://gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/microsoft/ Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable this guy called it loooong back
Comment linking /blog/2026/microsoft/
on “Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0”Submitted Prediction: Microsoft Is Going to Do the Funniest Thing Imaginable as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted ZCS – An Entity Component System in Zig as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Highlights from "I spent 6 years developing a game in Rust and it just shipped" as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write a Crash Reporter as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted ZCS – An Entity Component System in Zig as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indie Is Not a Genre, It's a Scene as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Highlights from "6 Years Developing a Game in Rust: AMA" (2024) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Entity Component System in Zig as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Now You're Cooking – Announce Postmortem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Not About the API – Fast, Flexible, and Simple Rendering in Vulkan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write Fast Game Engine Math as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Statically Linking PipeWire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Statically Linking PipeWire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ZCS – An Entity Component System in Zig as a story · 1 points
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