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Making Metagun

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What it is

A timelapse of Notch (Markus Persson) making Metagun, a game built from scratch in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 18. It shows the whole coding session sped up.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN holds it up as a vivid example of focused game-jam productivity, and it has been used to demystify programming for students and inspire tools for recording coding sessions.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2010, last 2015

What HN commenters said

  1. “was inspiration for a series of scripts I now use for clients”

    Notch's Ludum Dare timelapse inspired tooling for rendering coding sessions as videos.

    chops, 2014-08 · Recommendation · in “Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart”

  2. “show them Notch's time-lapse in the background on projector”

    Time-lapse of making a game to demystify creation for students.

    wallflower, 2015-01 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: I'm going to present technology jobs to 400 16yo,what should I tell them?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: notch, ludum dare, timelapse, game development, live coding

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