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Nathalie Lawhead
Personal blog · nathalielawhead.com/candyboxgameswriting
Nathalie Lawhead writes The Candybox Blog, a personal blog at nathalielawhead.com about games and writing. Since 2019, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “A short history of Flash and the forgotten “Flash Website” movement”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post listing tools that make game development and other computer art more approachable for non-programmers. The one comment only describes the linked post.
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?
- A short history of Flash and the forgotten “Flash Website” movement3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-13
- The wonderful world of tools made by small teams, solo-devs, and shareware3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-18
What Hacker News says?
This article links to a lot of tools meant to make game dev (or other computer art) more approachable for non-programmers: http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-wonderful-world-...
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HN discussionSubmitted The wonderful world of tools made by small teams, solo-devs, and shareware as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The wonderful world of tools made by small teams, solo-devs and shareware (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A short history of Flash and the forgotten “Flash Website” movement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A short history of Flash and the forgotten Flash Website movement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A short history of Flash and the forgotten Flash Website movement as a story · 1 points
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