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Comment by keerthiko | Hacker News Reader

i recall seeing something similar a long time ago, with a very similar name, and found it via HN search: sineridergame.com — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8615416

and it looks like you own the domain and route it to sinerider.com now? Are you affiliated with the creater from 8 years ago or did they abandon it? The game seems somewhat distinct though obviously similar. Did you ever interact with that game?

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Good memory! Yes, there is a connection here. I originally built sinerider when I was just out of high school. My ambitions were much bigger than my skillset, so I never really finished it. I started working for Hack Club a few years ago, and this summer we decided to turn our students loose on an old half-baked alpha I had on the shelf. Honestly I thought they might just fix the bugs and touch up the sprites a bit, but they ended up doing a top-to-bottom renovation with all this crazy new original art and sound and shader effects. I honestly truthfully pinky-swear never ever thought it would look and sound and feel this good. Watching this happen has been one of the greatest joys of my life!

that's amazing, i recalled greatly enjoying and also seeing the potential from your original prototype when i saw it in 2014 (my comment from back then says so)!

sounds incredibly gratifying to bequeath it to a new gen of devs and see them exceed your expectations for it, especially as an educator. great job!

Oh hey, I remember you!! I really appreciated your comment, that one in particular stuck with me.

And yeah, it's so much fun. It's a real privilege to work with such motivated, optimistic, hard-working students. They have all the energy that's been knocked out of me since 2014!

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