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I disagree with the author’s idea that blogs shouldn’t have a focus. I think the best blogs are these sort: 1. By an expert in a specific domain. 2. Blogs by
by marmot777 6y ago
I disagree with the author’s idea that blogs shouldn’t have a focus. I think the best blogs are these sort:
1. By an expert in a specific domain.
2. Blogs by someone in the process of developing expertise, documenting what they learned along the way. The idea is it really helps the learning process to learn something well enough to write about it cogently and teach others.
- rob2312 6y agoOn the second point, the ones that really appealed to me were the indie game dev blogs. They would figure out a unique mechanic or way of implementing a nice graphical effect, and then do a short post about it. Then other developers might pick up on it and adapt it for their projects. Most of the time those blogs were eventually abandoned along with the games they were trying to make but I think that a lot of indie games that have been released probably learnt a lot and sourced inspiration from those blogs. I wouldn't be surprised if a game like Terraria found a lot of inspiration from all the procedural generation blog posts after Minecraft came out.
- marmot777 6y agoFunny you mention Minecraft. My son LOVES Minecraft.