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The Scientific Gamer
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The Scientific Gamer is a personal blog at scientificgamer.com about games and science. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link The Scientific Gamer for game retrospectives and reviews, including pieces on Pharaoh and Papers, Please. One commenter calls its Papers, Please review good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Science, gaming, and all things in between.
What Hacker News says?
That's funny... I never heard about Pharaoh until last night when I read a retrospective (1),and now I read about it first thing in the morning :-) 1: https://scientificgamer.com/in-praise-of-pharaoh/
Comment linking /in-praise-of-pharaoh/
on “Cytopia: Open-source city simulator with pixel-art graphics”Submitted Thoughts: A Monster's Expedition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA good review of the game from a few months ago: http://scientificgamer.com/thoughts-papers-please/
Comment linking /thoughts-papers-please/
on “Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit”There've been a lot of pieces written about this, especially about Covert Action,[1][2][3][4] the game that Meier most explicitly called out for being a bunch of minigames that lacked coherence. Specifically, if the minigames were too engrossing and the overarching layer too complex, you'd go into one of them with an objective that you've forgotten by the time you gotten out of it.[5] And it's not a new argument, ei…
Comment linking /in-praise-of-covert-action/
on “The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates”