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Significant Bits
Personal blog · significant-bits.comgamesdesign
Significant Bits is a personal blog at significant-bits.com about games and design. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on the one-pixel collision box, a known convention in small action games. The comment cites it as background for a point about player hitboxes in games.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Having a very small (even one pixel) hit box for the player is actually sort of a tradition for this kind of game: http://www.significant-bits.com/the-1-pixel-collision-box Having a safe zone in a boss fight is an issue though.
Comment linking /the-1-pixel-collision-box
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