Best of 2011

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2011. 11 posts.

Games & Graphics
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How games cheat to help players

If we’ve done our jobs right, Wind-up Knight is a fairly simple game. There are only four inputs, and only two are ever needed simultaneously. Sir Sprint, our heroic spring-loaded knight, runs forward automatically, removing the need for a classic directional pad or analog stick. The challenge is derived from careful…