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Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization
GDC Festival of Gaming · 4 HN recommenders · 5 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 5 months (2017–2021).
SignalTube analysis
Among 34 other talk videos tagged Game design, the mean is 4.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 5 distinct months; the peer average is 4.2 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2021; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 62 minutes 15 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2017-06-07.
- Channel / speaker
- GDC Festival of Gaming
- Verified runtime
- 1h 2m 15s
- YouTube upload date
- 2017-06-07
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2021
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Game design. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's CivilizationCurrent video | 4 | 5 | 100% | — | 1h 2m 15s | 2017-06-07 |
| Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)talk · DevGAMM | 14 | 12 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 62m 42s | 2019-07-10 |
| Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purhotalk · grapefrukt | 12 | 12 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 15m 38s | 2012-05-24 |
| Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Waytalk · GDC Festival of Gaming | 11 | 8 | 67% | 1 (25%) | 59m 47s | 2018-10-08 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Sid Meier and the meaning of ‘Civilization’”. Its short rationale: History of Civilization's development from Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Sid Meier's Memoir”. Its short rationale: GDC talk on developing the original Civilization.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (2017)”. Its short rationale: Further talk on Civilization design and luck.