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Ricki Sickenger
Personal blog · sickenger.comprogramminggames
Ricki Sickenger writes Syntax Meditation, a personal blog at sickenger.com about programming and games. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Hibernate, just stop it”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link a 2013 post on hibernation and a making-of article on the Darkfall game, described as a 10+ year dream project whose team lost funding, went unpaid and moved countries.
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.
This is a postmortem for Rogue64, a modern roguelike game developed for the Commodore 64 by Badger Punch Games. Badger Punch games is an indie game developer with Ricki Sickenger (me) as developer and Henning Ludvigsen as graphics artist. What is Rogue64? Rogue64 is a modern roguel
Most-linked posts?
- Hibernate, just stop it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-11
What Hacker News says?
http://www.sickenger.com/2013/02/hibernate-just-stop-it/ <jk>
Comment linking /2013/02/hibernate-just-stop-it/
on “Tmux Resurrect – Persists tmux environment across system restarts”Submitted Maturing as a programmer - How to supercharge your career as a story · 3 points
HN discussionshoutout to darkfall http://www.sickenger.com/articles/the_making_of_darkfall/ - was the creators' dream game - 10+ years in the making - team lost funding, went without pay, and moved from sweden to greece - not a commercial success - best game ever made.
Comment linking /articles/the_making_of_darkfall/
on “The daunting aftermath of releasing your dream game”Submitted The making of Darkfall – One developer's perspective as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Play Framework slowed my code to a crawl. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted F*ck the process, embrace the team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hibernate, just stop it as a story · 1 points
HN discussion