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Comment by jacobolus | Hacker News Reader

> so emotive

We may only be hearing about this story because this kind of language increased its chance of being shared.

[I don’t think the developer resented the speed runners. He sounded flattered and amazed to me. But it’s sometimes hard to judge tone of voice from just text.]

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Yeah, it’s a cool blurb and a neat game, but this whole post is indie gaming advertising 101.

The lack of funding for traditional marketing is one of the greatest challenge for an indie developer. If they can come up with a (legal) way for getting attention, all the more power to them.

This is fine for this guy, but not repeatable. When it's one guy its a fun story - a performance piece almost. When it's repeated, staged or even just fabricated then you have the beginnings of a new form of clickbait.

Definitely not knocking it, I've been in and out of the indie dev scene for quite a few years now, just calling a spade a spade is all.

> just calling a spade a spade is all

Why though, what does it add to the discussion? Why does it matter if a tiny indie developer gets a bit of exposure to his tiny little game? "It's just an ad" sounds needlessly cynical and dismissive.

I mean, if you want my honest opinion because this kind of post is brutally pervasive on reddit, and I come to HN for content of a higher caliber?

HN is often just as bad, if not worse with the thinly veiled blog posts.

I for one appreciate learning a truth about the world, even if someone else thinks it's cynical & dismissive. Kinda like your second sentence is.

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