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800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes

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A Gource visualization showing 826 days of Minecraft development, tracking files and developer contributions over time.

A visualization of 826 days of Minecraft development, from alpha 1.2 to release 1.5, shown in 8~ minutes. Best watched in HD! Confused? Read on... Each dot represents a unique file, and its colour represents a different file type. Links between files are folders. Whenever someone flies by and "zaps" a file, it means they did something with it in real life. You can see as people work on new features or bugs, as they'll fly past certain files and zap them as they go. This was made using a slightly customized version of Gource, available at code.google.com/p/gource/.

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ytjohnon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Codeology: visualization of GitHub projects”

For those that like things like this, check out link - it's desktop only, but produces awesome visualizations. It works by going through your git history and essentially shows programmers buzzing around the code and updating files. It can do generic avatars, or even download their gravatar if they have one. A lot of videos online, but two great ones are: * The History of Python link to this video * 800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes link to this video
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fbnlsron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool”

Notch released a video of the Minecraft development history, that's when I first heard of Gource: link to this video
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MaxLeiteron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Gource – Animate your Git history”

I discovered Gource back in 2013 when Minecraft released an animation of their first 800+ days of dev: link to this video
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