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I solved the century-old mystery of a shipwreck survivor

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94 points Thevet | 3 comments | 12 Jul 25 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hatthew ◴[15 Jul 25 01:07 UTC] No.44566919[source]▶
If you liked this story, you might like the game Return of the Obra Dinn, which is kinda just this but for ~60 different people on a fictional ship.
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1. polivier ◴[15 Jul 25 10:43 UTC] No.44569794[source]▶
When my wife was pregnant and had to stop working, she got bored so I got her this game. At first she said she didn't like it "because the graphics suck". A couple days later she was totally immersed in the game and had made spreadsheets to track the whereabouts of every character over time. It is a really well-made game.
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2. the_af ◴[15 Jul 25 11:31 UTC] No.44570063[source]▶
The graphics are actually quite an impressive technical feat, Lukas Pope went into some detail in his blog/forums about the effort that went into making them. I remember lots of work went into getting the "dithering" right when the scene was in motion.
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3. nucleardog ◴[15 Jul 25 12:27 UTC] No.44570438[source]▶
Not only did a lot of work go in, but after much trial and error the breakthrough ended up coming from some random mathematician that happened to be following the thread and decided to take a crack at it.

Mathematician's posting starts here: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121280...

Next dev blog post from Lukas Pope mentioning this here: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121719...