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Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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What do you mean by test of time? Is this applicable to Minecraft if there is Michelangelos David, or Beethovens 5th Symphony? Or some random tech stuff like Git if all the math is run on the shoulders of the likes of Euklid? But to add something technical: Nicolas Appert the guy who did canning before Pasteur could explain how it worked.

It applies to everything you mentioned. I didn't ask anyone to compare the relative greatness of the creations.

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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List of video games supposedly developed by just one person: https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-14-best-games-developed... I say supposedly because I know Jonathan Blow paid someone to do all the art for Braid, and licensed all the music (I even saw him demo Braid before release with his programmer art at GDC back in 2008, it did not look anywhere near as pretty, so he made the right choice). But the artwork was so…

I highly recommend the Braid soundtrack.

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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this is an interesting topic -- I find it socially curious how some academic coders can have their name at the top of a project, as if it was solo, and then a dozen+ names listed in the "thank you" section.. as an academic outsider, I can say that there are definitely layers to the academic social norms world, where both well-spoken industrious visionary individuals, and harsh thankless abusive team leaders, can end up with "sole inventor" looking attributes even though in fact, no one does that much detailed work completely alone.

Re: Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

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List of video games supposedly developed by just one person: https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-14-best-games-developed... I say supposedly because I know Jonathan Blow paid someone to do all the art for Braid, and licensed all the music (I even saw him demo Braid before release with his programmer art at GDC back in 2008, it did not look anywhere near as pretty, so he made the right choice). But the artwork was so…

Lucas Pope is for sure a solo dev. He wrote a custom shader for Obra Dinn while he was also writing the storyline. It's a pretty incredible feat.

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