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800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes

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What it is

A Gource visualization of 826 days of Minecraft development, from alpha 1.2 to release 1.5, condensed into eight minutes. Each dot is a file, folders are links, and developers fly around zapping files as they work on them.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Shared as the canonical example of visualizing a real project's version control history with Gource.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “A lot of videos online, but two great ones are”

    Gource visualization of Minecraft's development history.

    ytjohn, 2016-02 · Recommendation · in “Codeology: visualization of GitHub projects”

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Topics: gource, minecraft, git history, visualization, game development

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