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Ok why have there been 5 open source games on HN today? EDIT: No really, why? Is there some bigger event I missed?
by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Ok why have there been 5 open source games on HN today?
EDIT: No really, why? Is there some bigger event I missed?
- ajoseps 5y agoI think the first one got popular (Total Annihilation?) and people started posting similar ones
- ekianjo 5y agoOAD was just on HN first page again last week, seeing it agai now that sounds like too much for no reason.
- ajoseps 5y agoIt was up last week since they just released a new version after a while, whereas this post seems to be in relation to the other OSS games that were posted today. I do think it's not a bad thing though. I learned of new interesting OSS games to try out!
- codetrotter 5y agoMy best guess is that one post gained traction and people were talking about other open source games in the comments and then other people learned about those games and decided to post about them. I think it’s nice when stuff like this happens. It’s like an impromptu theme day :)
- xkeysc0re 5y agoI quite enjoy when that happens. Often there'll be a deeply-nested comment with a great link that makes its way to the front page.
- astlouis44 5y agoWondering the same.
- ibotty 5y agoWhat were the other open source game posts?
- rwmj 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203940 Endless Sky https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201265 Beyond All Reason: Open-source RTS reimagining Total Annihilation I'm not sure about the other two.
- zem 5y agowidelands: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28196178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28196178
- mclightning 5y agoit is a relief to find someone else is curious about this too
- riggsdk 5y agoBack when Autodesk crippled Fusion360 it spawned a similar wave of posts about open source parametric CAD software. I don’t mind these either.