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Show HN: A Google Reader-inspired RSS reader

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Mailbag: Sausage Men

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Do you remember Ultima Online?

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Stranger Things is being edited retroactively by Netflix?

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Goodbye Zachtronics

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Toonstruck (Or, a Case Study in the Death of Adventure Games)

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When I made another Monkey Island

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Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design

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50 Years of Text Games: The End of a Journey

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Show HN: Escape Team

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Truths about video game stories

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The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in Movie Master on MS-DOS

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

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The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

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Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s

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Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years

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Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation

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Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step

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I Really Blew It (2020)

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Seinfeld Adventure

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Remembering Conway

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Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)

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Myst: the Drawbacks to Success

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Coffee Is Hard

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Artifact: What Went Wrong?

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Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

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The Archetypal Resonance of Classic JRPGs

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Lessons learned: writing really long fiction

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It’s time to reappraise the humble Choose Your Own Adventure book

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Great Adventure-Game Puzzles

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Telltale Autopsy

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20 Questions: A Strategy Guide (2010)

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Dungeons and Dragons: The revival of a 'geeky' pastime

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Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?

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Toxic management cost an award-winning game studio its best developers

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Send the Barbarian in First

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CRPG Book Released

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The best board game of 2017 is a wildly entertaining romantic comedy generator

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John Romero talks about creating TEd, the tile editor

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Economics of Minecraft

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The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons

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Lost Laughs in Leisure Suit Larry

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Moving away from GitFlow

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If I Made Another Monkey Island (2013)

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Implementing Inverse Kinematics

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A primer on designing better cameras for games [video]

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Where Games Go to Sleep: The Game Preservation Crisis (2011)

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Five Year Mission

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Graphics Deep Dive: Cascaded Voxel Cone Tracing in the Tomorrow Children

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A developer's journey to create 100 games in five years

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An insider's look at what he gave up to create a classic game

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The Little Printf

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How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames

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Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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How the Witcher 3’s economy was saved by polynomial least squares

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Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design

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Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100

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How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)

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Crunch Makes Games Worse

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Denthor's Graphics Tutorials: Why I am a Programmer

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Handmade Hero's new lessons about old-school game programming

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Carmack reveals the challenges of mobile VR game development

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Ageism in the Game Industry

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Finances of a Bare Bones Developer

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How GoG.com is growing beyond a back catalog

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Ultima IV

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A Dark Room: The Best-Selling Game That No One Can Explain

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Stanford University acquires source code for Multi-User Dungeon

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Microsoft buys AR headset patents for $100-150M – report

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Why Games Should Enter The Public Domain

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Internet Entrepreneurship: How to Avoid Becoming a Stressed-Out Loner

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Games That Teach Programming: A Brief Overview

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Journey for PS3: Strange Game (2012)

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The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away

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Why I'll never work on First-Person Shooters again

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Why are We Still Talking about LucasArts' Old Adventure Games?

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Why are there no true cross-platform filesystems?

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Several out of work as Valve makes 'large decisions' about its future

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It's Official: XNA is dead

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I Can Be Just As Capable. Let Me.

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Scale Something: How Draw Something Rode Its Rocket Ship Of Growth

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Passion vs. Professionalism

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Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout

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The Making Of Dwarf Fortress (2008)

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Felicia Day: Mogul In The Making

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Blizzard internals from GDC Austin

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Ultima (2012)

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A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer

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Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people (2002)

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The Curse of Monkey Island

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Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios

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Riven

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Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)

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Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write alt text

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