Minecraft Dev Makes New Game, Minicraft, in 48 Hours

[Movement_Machine]

What did he steal?

"Infiniminer", according to Wikipedia. http://thesiteformerlyknownas.zachtronicsindustries.com/?p=713

I can see the resemblance but infiniminer looks waaaaaay different. inspiration maybe, but i don't think he stole anything

 

[JesterRaiin]

sorry, double post

 

[JesterRaiin]

OT : Funny, little game. As usual, it seems that good idea beats fancy graphics and effects.

Huh.. you don't say.....

Yep, one hundred percent troo story. Just go ask some haters. According to some, Notch is devil himself, eats babies and enjoys torturing little fluffy, cute animals after his meals, sorry, bloody and perverted orgies his fanatical followers organize for their dark master.
No doubtly !

What did he steal?

"Infiniminer", according to Wikipedia. http://thesiteformerlyknownas.zachtronicsindustries.com/?p=713

I can see the resemblance but infiniminer looks waaaaaay different. inspiration maybe, but i don't think he stole anything

Infidel ! Heretic ! Burn !
Don't you realize that you must hate Notch despite facts, logic and even despite Notch himself saying he was inspired by "Infiniminer" ?

 

[SextusMaximus]

I know a guy who regularly does well in that competition, shows sped up clips of him making the thing on youtube, pretty interesting.

 

[Yvl9921]

And this is only going to further the idea that notch is a one trick pony.

though really... i feel this shouldnt count as an entry since its pretty much teh same as something he made before and it feels like its just like plagerizing a school report by writing a report that is conveniently like one you wrote three years ago with a few words changed.

Pretty much my thoughts. The whole idea of the 48 hour marathons is to BS an idea and throw it together as fast as possible, and some of the most hilariously bizarre games I've seen have come out of them, like a game about a duck that shoots skittles from its butt.

I'm guessing he just had a creativity block.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

Wow. He managed to make minecraft more dull, somehow.

Isn't the whole point of game-making marathon competitions to make something creative?

 

[MonkeyPunch]

Ah, so Notch is now so "famous" it's trendy to hate on him. That's how big you've become dude. 'Grats
You're almost on the same level as Modern Warfare it seems.

 

[imnot]

This is the second time I've seen Notch mentioned in The Escapist news about a limited-time create a game competition.

As much as I like Notch and Minecraft, it kind of saddens me that instead of reporting on the "best of" a competition like this, we're informed about a known developer that is competing in a competition with hundreds of others.

Notch already has plenty of publicity.

I think its because minecraft won March mayhem, which basicaly means Notch owns the escapists soul or something. Not that Im complaining I like the guy!

 

[SoranMBane]

Look, Escapist reporters, I like Notch too. He's a great guy who made an awesome game; we can all agree on that. But when a neat competition like this occurs, a real, competent reporters would report on the competition itself. Focusing only on one specific developer taking part in the competition and nothing else is bad journalism. How many other developers took part in the competition? Were there any other noteworthies among them? Who won and what prizes did they win? Who hosted the competition? You didn't tell us any of this when you were supposed to, and this kind of positive discrimination in its reporting doesn't make The Escapist any better than Fox News and their constant negative discrimination against video games.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Nay, i shan't hate the man that has kept me up late at night gleefully building a replica of the lincoln memorial with a creeper head instead of a lincoln head

Thou art beyond redemption then, oh vile naysayer, since it was God Almighty that said once "Thou shalt not suffer The Notch to live" ! So says The Lord !

 

[Balobo]

Notch completly stole Minecraft. What he did was built upon the single most liked experience from another game. He had just the good fortune to come up with it first. He is no god of games or whatever some are calling him... He just had a bit of luck.

Ah. Jealousy. Sweetest poison of all. ;]

What did he steal?

Haven't you heard ? Notch, wearing full ninja costume, armed with katana and sh*t broke into main building of Blizzard, killed corporate fullborgs doing as many backflips as possible, and stole code that was supposed to be new engine for upcoming Duke Nukem Forever game. Then, posing as big breasted blonde stewardess he hijacked a plane full of Bethesda programmers, had them replace some textures in this code and finally sold it as "Minecraft".
Considering cries of butthurt haters that was the case, i am sure of it !

OT : Funny, little game. As usual, it seems that good idea beats fancy graphics and effects.

ITT Notch fanboy. Didn't know there were any left.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

So...it's Terraria?

 

[RagTagBand]

So...it's Terraria?

No. Terraria is fun.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

No. Terraria is fun.

I didn't say it wasn't. Terraria is great.

The similarities stand, though.

 

[Odd Water]

You guys can talk about Notch and Minecraft all you want. I'll just focus on the new game.

The main issues I have with the game are that you can't make torches (turning the underground portion into an exercise of equal parts tedium and sheer terror as you tote a large unwieldy lantern around without any means to fight back against the hordes of death while you're holding it), and cloth seems to be largely useless, unless you can craft it into a torch and I haven't figured it out yet. Dirt also doesn't really serve a purpose and chests seem to only be useful for dumping old tools in them after you don't have any use for them.

Oh, and of course, the permadeath, but I find that my ability to avoid being killed is pretty fly so it wasn't an issue for me.

The good things about the game are that he actually put some really cool overall mechanics in it that I hope make it into the main game. A few notable aspects are that tools are actually useful because their functions can't be replicated by punching the block manually, being able to lift things with the power glove instead of having to destroy them to pick them up again, and making ore blocks spiky harbingers of death to ensure that you don't just plow recklessly into the darkness (the equivalent of just digging straight down) make things smoother, and in the latter case, more interesting.

I'd like to point out that with the monsters being slimes and zombies kind of reminds me of Terraria in some sort of funny coincidence.

Lots of good stuff said there that pretty much covers it all.

All I can add:

He spent 48 hours making it. I spent 2 hours of playing it through 2 lives. I've no reason to ever pick it up again. It gets dull very fast. And permadeath is a big annoyance in gather games like this. I would spent 20 minutes chopping trees just trying to get at least 30 apples to go into a cave.

 

[cheese_wizington]

The day notch isn't a total ass of a person and can make something other than minecraft, is the day I will be impressed with him.

 

[Weaver]

I was against the idea of notch being allowed to compete in Ludum Dare because regardless of what he made it would get press time and entirely overshadow whatever the small timers or hobbyists made.

 

[Formica Archonis]

I played for a while and it's not as fun as Prelude of the Chambered was, sadly; Notch's entry into the last LD was a lot better.

 

[rabidkanid]

I just tried the game for the last 3-4 hours and I can now say that Minicraft is a HORRIBLE game.

1. You can't save so when you die, you have to start right at the beginning with all your stuff gone and the map re-shuffled.

2. When you make a lantern you can't carry it with you on your characters body. You have to hold it above your head (You can't attack to defend yourself) or drop it on the floor. When you drop it on the floor you can't pick it back up. This forces you to either A. Make a bunch of lanterns and attempt to light your way with a trail of them or B. Carry one over your head and run into the darkness looking for something other than Iron Ore to make better equipment. I ended up doing the later after a while when I saw that the cave I was in after going down a flight of steps was massive and would take too long for me make enough lanterns. Also, I was sure I'd run out of sand to make glass for the lanterns before I found gold or diamonds anywhere. After getting attacked by zombies and slimes I accidentally dropped the lantern on the floor and spend the next dozen minutes pushing the thing around trying to find my way out. I got lost and eventually died. Then of course, all my progress was gone and I was back at the start.

I needed something stronger than Iron to make a better pick axe so I could get through this ore barrier to gain access to some stairs going up. Since the enemy is a sky wizard or something I assumed he was up there. But since I couldn't find anything stronger than Iron, I couldn't even get to him.

Horrible game, doesn't deserve to win. You'd think he'd take the obvious good aspects when it came to exploring in Minecraft and put them in this game.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

It would be interesting to see if the voters remain objective, or if 'OMG teh Minecrafts ftw!!!1!' causes people unneccesarily vote for it out of fanboy loyalty!

Not saying it won't be a good game though, it might be the best there and might deserve to win... or it might no win at all... it will just be interesting though!