Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? by bckr on Monday September 30, 2024 @12:15PM (#41698869)

I’m doing a deep dive into the video games of the year 2000.

The plan is to make a threejs site where I can display all my favorite games with models of their original packaging and instruction manuals.

An interesting aspect of the research is that almost all published games are bad or mediocre.

Wikipedia knows about ~800 video games published in the year 2000. Of those, only ~300 either piqued my interest based on description or had reviews above ~70% positive.

I eliminated more of those based on personal interest (realistic flying or sports are not very interesting to me). And even more by watching videos of gameplay.

The level of polish and artistry vary enormously.

I’ve got a list of <100 games I’m very interested in, still. Which is a lot! But the breakdown is interesting to me.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? by justsomehnguy on Monday September 30, 2024 @01:19PM (#41699655)

https://www.mobygames.com/game/from:2000/until:2000/sort:mob...

2296 results

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? by bckr on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:19AM (#41704795)

Thanks! I’ll work from this going forward, maybe check it against Wikipedia as a popularity heuristic.

One thing I realized today is that, if I’m doing an “ideal year of gaming”, there’s a limit to the hours I could spend in such a year, which puts a nice limit on how many games I can include. Maybe 100 games per year, tops. This lets me do a lot faster filtering.

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