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Sophie Houlden
Personal blog · sophiehoulden.com/bloggamesdesign
Sophie Houlden's personal blog at sophiehoulden.com covers games and design. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “An Epicyclic Clock”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Sophie Houlden's blog for her games, such as Linear RPG and the Box game, and for a talk on making games. The threads cover procrastination, shipping and pricing games.
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?
- An Epicyclic Clock3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-06-22
What Hacker News says?
Your blog reminded me of “Linear RPG”: you run along a line to collect XP. It’s a flash game. https://sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/
Comment linking /games/thelinearrpg/
on “A receipt printer cured my procrastination”Submitted Can Art be Games? as a story · 51 points
HN discussionAnd this reminds me of a talk, by Sophie Houlden, called "computer games are awesome, but you suck because you haven’t made one yet, you lazy bastard." http://www.sophiehoulden.com/blog/?p=84#more-84
Comment linking /blog/?p=84
on “You’ve Either Shipped or You Haven’t”Submitted Results of the Swift*Stitch 'pay when you want' sale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou want a list of spatial mind blowers? You should have just asked. Box game: http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/boxgame/ The bridge: http://thebridgeisblackandwhite.com/ EOF: http://gamejolt.com/games/end-of-file-prototype/41818 Curved spaces (more of a toy than a game): http://geometrygames.org/CurvedSpaces/index.html.en colortone(I haven't played it yet): http://gamejolt.com/games/colortone/68905 parallax: http:…
Comment linking /games/boxgame/
on “Stages in Pricing Computer Games (2014)”Submitted Lemmings for Picotron as a story · 2 points
HN discussiondamn- I thought it would take advantage of the 2d nature of wolfenstein's gameplay, to make an fps that played exactly the same, but without the vertical display dimension... this basically a more action-y 'linearrpg' http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/ (also flash)
Comment linking /games/thelinearrpg/
on “Wolfenstein 1-D (2011)”Submitted An Epicyclic Clock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epicycle Clock by Sophie Houlden as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epicycle Clock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epicycle Clock as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epicycle Clock as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SWIFT*SWITCH post-mortem as a story · 1 points
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