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Hemisphere Games
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Hemisphere Games is the company blog at hemispheregames.com, writing about games and programming. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Small team, small budget, clever idea, - trumps indie game market”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Osmos game page from Hemisphere Games, a physics-based ambient game about absorbing other motes. Commenters mention it as a relaxing game and point to its demos.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Small team, small budget, clever idea, - trumps indie game market4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-04-04
- Floating-point determinism in the mobile game Osmos2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-13
What Hacker News says?
http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/#anchor_demos Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait. Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied an…
Comment linking /osmos/
on “The state of Mac and Linux gaming”Submitted The Russian as a story · 62 points
HN discussionIt does get harder, yes. Some levels are hectic, and some levels are tricky. And there are some surprises along the way. It's a bit hard to capture the difficulty in a video since what's different is, well, invisible. And also I don't want to give away the solutions to the more interesting episodes (or ruin the surprise). To quote Osmos: "Is there a demo of Osmos I can try first? Yes, but don’t let it fool you. The…
Comment linking /osmos/
on “Ask HN: My iPhone game is out. Now what?”Submitted Issues Linux game developers face: a post-mortem from the creators of Osmos as a story · 33 points
HN discussionOsmos http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/ Its not exactly "online" (although I hear it started out that way) but it definitely breaks tension. The reviews aren't exaggerating, its like chill-out in a can.
Comment linking /osmos/
on “Ask HN: What online games do you play to break the tension?”Submitted Osmos developers on why they haven't ported to Android (yet) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSounds like the music in the game Osmos. http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/
Comment linking /osmos/
on “Scientists discover the most relaxing tune ever”Submitted ᐊᑕᓇᕐᔪᐊᑦ (ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖅ ᐊᑕᐅᓯᖅ ᓈᒻᒪᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hemisphere Games Why we haven’t ported Osmos to Android – as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Floating-point determinism in the mobile game Osmos as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Physics-Based Animation in Gibbon: Beyond the Trees as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Osmos, Updates, and Floating-Point Determinism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Osmos, Updates, and Floating-Point Determinism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Apportable (YC W11) Android Experience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small team, small budget, clever idea, - trumps indie game market as a story · 1 points
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