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Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem

• deleted 2mo ago
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• japhib 2mo ago
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  • msephton 2mo ago
    A death thread hidden behind a link? Charming.
    • japhib 2mo ago
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      • tomhow 2mo ago
        Please just don't post ragey links like this. Even if it's satirical, it's still mean and can be shocking when it's aimed at you. We're trying for better than this on HN. If a post is badly written, just flag it or email us (hn@ycombinator.com).
• Supermancho 2mo ago
  Not a postmortem. A game design review.
  • msephton 2mo ago
    Hi, author here. I've always used the term postmortem to summarise a project after it has shipped: what worked, what didn't, what was kept, what was thrown out. This post has all that. It's the same use of the term as the many postmortems on gamedeveloper.com etc
• Jabrov 2mo ago
  I’m so sick and tired of AI slop. I spend all day at my desk talking to LLMs for work. Then I come on here to escape a little and see what people are working on, and it’s just more LLM text. Good for you that you built a game engine or a game or whatever this post was about (my eyes glazed over), but come on. Stop wasting our time.
  • msephton 2mo ago
    Author here. It leaves me despondent that I can plough so much time into a project, a game, and a blog post, have someone else find it interesting enough to submit to HN, and then see the first response dismiss it as LLM-generated text—from someone who admits they didn’t even read it. Believe it or not, it wasn’t.