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Tynan Sylvester
Personal blog · tynansylvester.comgameswriting
Tynan Sylvester's personal blog at tynansylvester.com covers games and writing. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Indie Developer of RimWorld: In games dev, speed is quality”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Tynan Sylvester's site, linked as the home of his book Designing Games and as the work of the RimWorld developer. The comments only point to it and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /book/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-19
- Indie Developer of RimWorld: In games dev, speed is quality2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-27
What Hacker News says?
I've come across this kind of comment elsewhere, and the recommendation was that "the book" is Designing Games by Tynan Sylvester (the author of Rimworld) https://tynansylvester.com/book/ Haven't read it yet myself.
Comment linking /book/
on “Game design is simple”Submitted The Simulation Dream (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHighly complex, in-depth, system simulation is like a siren song for game developers and players alike. There's this perception that an amazing simulation will be the basis for an amazing game. In practice, high-quality simulations seem to be interesting but not all that fun. See: F.E.A.R.'s Goal-Oriented Action Planning ( https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/goap.html ) which had to be modified to broadcast its int…
Comment linking /book/
on “Citybound – A city building game using actor-based distributed simulation”Submitted Cutting polish and nonlinear results as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRimworld is a very nice base building game, which gained a enormous amount of popularity from the get go due to the similarities to another quite popular game (Dwarf Fortress) and excellent game design (to make the game somewhat challenging every game you play is supervised by a AI director which more or less does the same thing as the one in L4D). The game as also expanded tremendously as of now due to three DLC pa…
Comment linking /book/
on “Ask HN: Recommendations for Steam Deck Games”Submitted Indie Developer of RimWorld: In games dev, speed is quality as a story · 1 points
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