800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes

800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2016–2023.

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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.

people recommended it: 1
separate months: 1
strong recommendations: 0
discussed on HN: 2016–2023

“Minecraft released an animation of their first 800+ days of dev”
— MaxLeiter, Apr 2023, in “Gource – Animate your Git history”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

ytjohnFeb 2016Recommends

For those that like things like this, check out [link] - it's desktop only, but produces awesome visualizations. It works by going through your git history and essentially shows programmers buzzing around the code and updating files. It can do generic avatars, or even download their gravatar if they have one. A lot of videos online, but two great ones are: * The History of Python ▶ this video * 800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes ▶ this video

in “Codeology: visualization of GitHub projects” · View on HN

MaxLeiterApr 2023Cites it

I discovered Gource back in 2013 when Minecraft released an animation of their first 800+ days of dev: ▶ this video

in “Gource – Animate your Git history” · View on HN

fbnlsrNov 2019Cites it

Notch released a video of the Minecraft development history, that's when I first heard of Gource: ▶ this video

in “Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Data visualization & information design Game programming & engines Testing, debugging & developer toolsgourceminecraftgit historyvisualizationgame development