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THE LIFE OF A GAME DEVELOPER
Personal blog · lemmings.infogameshistory
THE LIFE OF A GAME DEVELOPER is a personal blog at lemmings.info about games and history. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Complete History of Lemmings”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its Lemmings game history page, which one commenter was hoping to find on the domain. The comments do not discuss the writing itself.
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.
an incomplete history
Most-linked posts?
- The Complete History of Lemmings3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-04-10
What Hacker News says?
Precalcing the entire thing and delivering absolutely nothing but a bunch of print statements is certainly an option that's completely in the spirit of the kinds of stuff one does to speed up an 8-bit computer(1) but the toy problem of "how can I speed up this for-next loop and the various logic inside it" was more fun. :) (also the spaces-instead-of-newlines choice was made so as to avoid scrolling the screen, the…
Comment linking /porting-lemmings-to-the-zx-spectrum-next/
on “Programming with Less Than Nothing”Submitted C64 Blood Money as a story · 131 points
HN discussionFrom the domain, I was hoping for Lemmings info. They have it! It is here: https://lemmings.info/lemmings-gamehistory/ . In its own submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679873
Comment linking /lemmings-gamehistory/
on “C64 Blood Money”Submitted The Complete History of Lemmings as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Complete History of Lemmings as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted DMA Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Complete History of Lemmings as a story · 2 points
HN discussion