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[Check out http://www.functionn.in for more web resources to keep you functionn.in']

Game Icons is a massive icon pack containing a mighty 950+ icons which can be used for games or applications. The icons are categorized in various categories such as Animal, Weapon, Fire , Food, Action, Liquid, Symbol, Skull, Plant, Body, Heart, Tool, Arrow, Sea, Stone, Eye, Machine, Sword, Face, Chemical and more.

Dozens of new icons are added weekly and if you need a specific icon, you can even send a request by email. The icons are available in SVG and PNG formats, which can all be downloaded at once from the website.

License: CC 3.0 License

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I get the feeling you're posting game-icons.net here just as an excuse to also link to your news site. I think the submitted link is fine, but also posting a link to your site seems borderline spam.

+1, Hirvesh has become a blatant link spammer. He's careful to always combine the spam with some value (i.e., nice icons), but, still.

c'mon, it's not that bad, it's kind of a win-win situation, you get to know about things, I get some shameless promotion.

At http://www.functionn.in, we do not post things which have been posted all over the web. We post things which are AWESOME and FRESH. We do this daily. Check it out once, I'm sure you'll find it super useful :)

But if people are not fine with it, I'll stop. Just drop comment here people. I'll take it as a no-go :)

What a coincidence. At http://www.example.com/, we like doing the exact same things. Everything we post is AWESOME and FRESH as well as being done daily. Check it out, it's super useful!

Everyone please reply and post your own website as well because obviously if everyone promoted themselves inside every discussion, it would add a ton of value and would totally not be spam.

Scratch that. Here's another thought: if you want to promote your own site, put some value-added content within your site and link to that. For example: how to resize, color, and use game-icons.net in cocos2d for iOS. That would make for a decent blog entry that does three things: (1) lets people know about game-icons.net; (2) demonstrates how to make practical use of the icons; and (3) links to your own site where you can do your self-promotion and gain subscribers (or whatever your goal is).

Thank you for those wise words! Will keep that in mind and try to improve the quality of the posts :)

Edit: Actually it's a brilliant suggestion. Thank you for this biot!

I was going to just walk away, but since you asked, here's my comment. laserDinosaur is absolutely correct. This post is just a link-spam in disguise. Checked your history: you are basically constantly spamming HN with links to some projects (not yours) just to insert your own comment later with a link to your site and a TL;DR-like description of the project added to make this link look less spammy. Working as a traffic generator? Maybe. But not cool at all, if you ask me.

seriously, somebody else would have just dropped a link to the blog. I just leave a comment with a summary of the project which I think might be useful for other people, e.g. license type and all.

However, since seems like the consensus that I should not post a link to the site, I will refrain from doing so, but will still contribute to HN wholeheartedly :)

I'm pretty sure that at http://www.functionn.in, you like to post your link whenever and however possible. ;)

Good icons, though.

glad somebody caught onto that :P

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