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Making Metagun

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.

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Why HN readers recommended 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.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Nizzotch
Topic
game jam development
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2010–2015

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Notch's Ludum Dare video for Metagun ( [VIDEO] ) was inspiration for a series of scripts I now use for clients and my own entertainment purposes (for some loose definition of "entertainment"). It's a series of shell scripts I use that screencap videos of coding …

    chops on Hacker News · 2014-08
    In Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

  • First, congratulations! I would demystify the process of creation. Show them your wireframes, your pencil sketches, talk about the business v. creative push and pull. Make it interactive - break them into groups of 2-3 each for 5 min and show them Notch's time-lapse in …

    wallflower on Hacker News · 2015-01
    In Ask HN: I'm going to present technology jobs to 400 16yo,what should I tell them?

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