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Rami Ismail
Personal blog · ramiismail.comgamesculture
Rami Ismail's personal blog at ramiismail.com covers games and culture. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Patch the Process”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Rami Ismail's posts on game development and the games business, such as making a game a week and the day-one patch process. Commenters link them as sources for points about game releases.
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.
Because making games is hard enough already — I support game devs & dev communities worldwide with insight, knowledge, interventions, connections, and resources.
Most-linked posts?
- Patch the Process5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-08-07
What Hacker News says?
Here's Ryan Clark (Crypt of the NecroDancer) writing about what makes a game commercially viable: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanClark/20150917/253842/Wha... Here's Jan Willem Nijman of Vlambeer discussing a large number of small improvements that make games feel good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U Here's Rami Ismail, also of Vlambeer, explaining how making a game a week helps you develop an intuit…
Comment linking /2014/02/game-a-week/
on “I Have Created 50 Games in 2014”Submitted How much will your first indie game make? as a story · 22 points
HN discussionhttp://ramiismail.com/2016/08/patch-the-process/ Not weird at all, "big day 1 patch" is very common for anything being distributed on consoles.
Comment linking /2016/08/patch-the-process/
on “No Man's Sky: Update 1.03”Submitted An Inline Response to Wage Slaves as a story · 9 points
HN discussionApparently these massive day-one patches are a way to work around consoles' certification programs: http://ramiismail.com/2016/08/patch-the-process/
Comment linking /2016/08/patch-the-process/
on “No Man's Sky: Update 1.03”Submitted Patch the Process as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhy not just link to the original post rather than a series of extracted quotes? http://ramiismail.com/2015/02/everything-is-not-fine-and-tha...
Comment linking /2015/02/everything-is-not-fine-and-thats-fine/
on “Games are fine but the business isn't”Submitted How much does it cost to go to GDC? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patch the Process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patch the Process as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A pitching masterclass through No Man’s Sky as a story · 1 points
HN discussion