FortressCraft Creator: Minecraft Doesn't Focus on Creativity

[Togusa09]

There was a time when an FPS was a 'Doom clone' and an open sandbox game was a 'GTA clone', platformer, 'Mario clone' and the list goes on. it's how gaming evolves, slowly by taking other's concepts and just building off of them, Minecraft itself was inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer. In time the voxel based building type game could become its own genre.

Given how much id engines were used in the early days, a lot of doom/quake clones were even using the same engines.

 

[scnj]

Did you record the Skype session? Because that sounds like disenfranchisement, and you could use that against him.

Sadly, no. I downloaded Skype specifically to get into the testing chat, and had no idea how to use it, or that I'd get screwed over at the end of it. In fact, I only found out when I downloaded the game demo and excitedly loaded up the credits to see my name.

 

[LavaLampBamboo]

Frankly, he'd be less of a bullshit merchant if he hadn't called the game "FortressCraft". There is literally only ONE reason he'd call it that. It's the same reason Gameloft call their CoD rip-off "Modern Combat".

The fact he is even bothering to argue against this is sad. It just makes him look petty, and he is annoyed he is going to lose a lot of income once Minecraft is released on Xbox. So instead of being gracious, he's going to throw a hissy fit and tarnish his name in the eyes of gamers so they won't respect him, and not buy whatever he does next.

 

[SoulSalmon]

As much as I think people who believe Infiniminer, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft or Terraria are in any way clones/ripoffs of eachother need to throw their PC in a fire...
Fortresscraft is pretty obvious about being a ripoff made only for quick easy money.

On a related note, this Sawkins guy sounds like he's throwing a tantrum >.>

 

[Tharwen]

Sawkins has the same attitude to design as most of the Minecraft modders. Adding lots of new things doesn't necessarily enhance gameplay, and a lot of the appeal of Minecraft was in creating things in such a way that they fitted into the emergent story that was exposed through playing it.

 

[Zefar]

For people who say Minecraft ripped off Infiminer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdgbsEvD7og

Please take a look at that gameplay. Infiminer was round based ore gathering type of game. Minecraft evolved so much on that concept. The graphic? Yes that's similar. The blocks? Yep. Gathering ore? Yep but that's about it.

Fortresscraft is a complete ripoff which just seems to focus on creating things. Which Minecraft does as well with it's building mode. Or even normal mode. Survival gets rather trivial after the first few nights when you already got your castle up and running.

The guy making FortressCraft is a prick though. Acting like it has nothing to do with Minecraft.

 

[Exterminas]

He is just trying to cash in on all the people who disliked the recent updates to Minecraft.

While he probably has done some decent work on his own, this seems like a dickmove to me.

 

[theultimateend]

I concede Minecraft is no longer about creativity no that the shitty story is shoehorned into the matter. But it was not so when Fortress craft was made. Just admit you got the idea from minecraft, you launched it with the title for publicity, that you did some underhanded things, and let the fanboys wank to that for a week so they can move on.

True enough, not like it has a mode or anything for being creative.

What would they even call a mode like that?

Still not the main focus of the game. The main focus of the game is killing the enderdragon.

I haven't googled yet so I'm not sure if you are trolling me.

Considering I've never heard of this thing >_>.

 

[Athelion]

I'm all for realizing that Minecraft has become more of a genre than a single game but this is ridiculous. So he doesn't know what a clone means and he is as egotistically arrogant as Nicholas Sparks is when he says no one else writes romance books like him. I could understand Terraria because of its 2D and rpg game play but come on, this looks EXACTLY like minecraft. Hell the things he talks about that are so called "different" look like things that can be modded into Minecraft itself.

 

[roostuf]

Im not going to attempt to weigh the merits of MC and FC against each other because i am a fan of minecraft for a few years now, and if i started playing now it will most likely end in a bias result.