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Creating Prelude of the Chambered

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  • Recommended by 2 people: 2 on Hacker News.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2015 to 2026.
  • Presented by Markus Persson
  • May be out of date. Uploaded 15 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

474K views15 years ago2 recommendations

Game developmentGame programmingUnity, Unreal and Godot

A timelapse showing Markus Persson (Notch) coding his Ludum Dare 21 game entry, Prelude of the Chambered, from scratch in 48 hours.

This is a timelapse of me creating my entry for the 21'st Ludum Dare competition. The entire game was created from scratch within 48 hours, and can be played here: s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/index.html

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2 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as an inspiring demonstration of rapid game development and coding from scratch during a game jam.

wallfloweron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: I'm going to present technology jobs to 400 16yo,what should I tell them?”

…The scrolling left to right background v. making the bird move. How the object detection is greatly simplified when you have only one coordinate to detect (y-bird and y-pipeTop/y-pipeBottom). How adding gravity to the bird (downward velocity) allows you to fly the bird. "Making Metagun" by Notch link "Creating Prelude of the Chambered" by Notch link to this video…
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CodeArtisanon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings”

The games he made for programming competitions like ludum dare were decent. I especially enjoyed Prelude to the chambered. link link to this video link
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sovandeon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun”

For example, link to this video Keep in mind, this is 48 hours and he had created a "few" games before this.
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