[HN Gopher] End of an Era
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       End of an Era
        
       Author : marcusestes
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2025-06-30 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | AndrewDucker wrote:
       | This feels quite sad.
       | 
       | Someone who clearly wanted to make a difference, but mostly seems
       | to have not just _made games_.
       | 
       | He made game tools, but then didn't actually use them to make
       | games. And then he blamed everyone else for not being ready for
       | what he was making.
       | 
       | Giving up after only one released work just seems like such a
       | shame.
        
         | abetusk wrote:
         | The posts author and site operator is Chris Crawford [0]. He
         | said so in the post but Wikipedia confirms that he was mostly
         | active from 1980s to 1990s with at least 15 titles to his name,
         | not including other tools that he built and not including game
         | design books that he authored or wrote for.
         | 
         | [0]
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford_(game_designer)
        
         | refulgentis wrote:
         | This feels quite sad.
         | 
         | A whole person -- flattened into little bits gleaned from some
         | text, glued together with assumptions and world-building --
         | dismissed as "blaming" and "giving up" "after one game"
         | 
         | The YouTube link in the other post has a top comment of "The
         | best speech in all of gaming history delivered by what must be
         | considered the Socrates of gaming.", to give you a sense of
         | there may be more depth to this person than "giving up after 1
         | game".
         | 
         | If nothing else, it indicates _the crowd_ perceives more depth,
         | which will be enough to make you ponder if you missed
         | something.
         | 
         | I suggest re-reading the article with a different set of
         | assumptions -- when faced with a contradiction, first, check
         | your premises -- it's likely the guy worried about declining
         | programming skills and pointing out the ease at which he was
         | dismissing JavaScript due to simple errors, is being self-aware
         | and sarcastic.
         | 
         | Once you're freed via engaging with your own thinking, instead
         | of rushing to do public judgement, it is a quite beautiful
         | meditation of working on something that fails to get the
         | mindshare you hoped for, and a all-too-familiar to all of us
         | reminder of the cognitive dissonance required to be okay with
         | that, even when you'll never be okay.
        
       | proneb1rd wrote:
       | Was his video presentation ever recorded? Would be interested to
       | see what kind of tools he's been building
        
         | abetusk wrote:
         | Just a quick search on YouTube for Chris Crawford yields a few
         | results [0] [1] [2].
         | 
         | [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMg2_teHVTs
         | 
         | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajz_1TqccYA
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         | [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074
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         | [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFPs9MUvR3U
        
       | moondistance wrote:
       | Chris Crawford is also famous for the Dragon Speech :)
       | https://youtu.be/CBrj4S24074?si=Ph12RpW8BKsh8-qS
        
       | vault wrote:
       | dark reader screws this website so badly
        
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