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Greg Costikyan
Personal blog · costik.comgamesdesignwriting
Greg Costikyan's personal blog at costik.com covers games, design and writing. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “SPI Died for Your Sins - The Death of Wargaming”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Greg Costikyan's 1996 essay "A Farewell to Hexes" on the downfall of SPI, the wargame publisher, as background on the decline of paper wargames.
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?
- SPI Died for Your Sins - The Death of Wargaming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-05
What Hacker News says?
"A Farewell to Hexes" -- more about SPI's downfall than AH, but relevant overall. This old page was written in 1996. http://www.costik.com/spisins.html Paper wargames were overshadowed by paper RPGs, and then by computer games. It's a small niche market today.
Comment linking /spisins.html
on “The Avalon Hill game company [video]”Submitted SPI Died for Your Sins - The Death of Wargaming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Have No Words and I Must Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussion