Notch Unveils His New Game

[Urgh76]

This sounds a lovely light hearted adventure.

Twice. This is the second time I've seen you do this early on in a thread, and I've loved each time.

 

[CAPTCHA]

I've heard of games been rushed out the door, but when the player has to write the script themselves that going a bit to far /jk

OT: Sound a bit like Elite.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

2. If you can find me a MMO game that has a subscription fee of less then $10 dollars per month, you would have a point.

Order and Chaos Online $0.99
Graal Kingdoms - $4.00
Tibia Micro Edition - $5.00
Rise - $5.95
Neocron 2 - $7.00

That list isn't comprehensive, but there are some examples of MMO's with a monthly subscription below $10.

I think we should call it 16 to the 12.

 

[draythefingerless]

BTW NOTCH, WHY THE FUCK IS IT 16 BIT? WE HAVE 32 NAU, AND ITS MUCH EASIER. WHY YOU HAVE TO BE SUCH A NERDY PROGRAMMER? I HATE 16 BIT ASSEMBLY!(ihateassemblyingeneralbutwhatever)

Because the game is set using 1988 technology, and I wonder how long it is, until someone builds 0x10^c in 0x10^c. Hell we've already had minecraft in minecraft.

i think he pulled the date to justify the use of 16 bit, not the other way around.

 

[letfireraindown]

Interesting... But irritatingly reminding me that I have a computer architecture project that I have to get done.

 

[letfireraindown]

0x10c

The mathematician in me is intrigued just by the title alone. Though it still reduces down to just plain '0' it is still really really big zero!

It's the hexidecimal number that translates to 268 in decimal.

um... Further, in all the graphics, and very little of the text, it's shown as 0x10^c, suggesting that it's hex ten (0x10) raised to the twelfth (0xc = 12 decimal) which places it as 16^12

which is roughly 2 peta bytes, or more likely that year they gave minus 1988. I didn't bother doing the actual math.

 

[Woodsey]

Pretty sure its meant to be Zero Existence, everyone.

 

[Racecarlock]

Do it, you magnificent son of a *****!

 

[Jowe]

If my basic grade mathematical knowledge is correct 0x10^c (on the icon next to c is superscript, so "power of" as in 4^2 = 4x4 = 16)

x10^X is a convention for denoting large numbers in small. So 1 Trillion would be written as 1x10^12 and the ^12 means the '12' is supposed to be in superscript.

0'000'000'000... recurring, with the number of zeroes equal the "Speed of light" which is approximately 300'000'000 meters/sec or 1 billion feet per second. But in a sense, C is kind of symbolic for a "really big finite number" that is also the fastest speed in the universe.

So in other words, the title is: many MANY zeroes.

To give you an idea of how many zeroes, see this block of zeroes:


0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...

Now repeat that block 600'000 times, so if that block of zeroes is just over an inch high on your screen, then in total the column of zeroes would be over TEN MILES HIGH! Yet it is still a value of zero. Just a 03 is the same as 3.

And all that is the long form equivalent of the title:

0x10c

The mathematician in me is intrigued just by the title alone. Though it still reduces down to just plain '0' it is still really really big zero!

Hate to burst your bubble but its hex for the amount of time they were in cryo for :/

 

[theheroofaction]

I'm gonna call this right now, within a week of this games release, there will be a starship made entirely out of a single engine and 30 tons of duct tape.

 

[DracoSuave]

0x10c

The mathematician in me is intrigued just by the title alone. Though it still reduces down to just plain '0' it is still really really big zero!

It's the hexidecimal number that translates to 268 in decimal.

um... Further, in all the graphics, and very little of the text, it's shown as 0x10^c, suggesting that it's hex ten (0x10) raised to the twelfth (0xc = 12 decimal) which places it as 16^12

which is roughly 2 peta bytes, or more likely that year they gave minus 1988. I didn't bother doing the actual math.

That totally make a lot more sense.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I'm only in Pre-cal so does "0Ec" mean anything or is it just to look cool?

EDIT:
Fast palm.
Forgot my physics 101. C normally stands for the speed of light. Big number.

 

[vivster]

so a niche game that will be played by everybody to seem smart...

 

[rickynumber24]

I'm only in Pre-cal so does "0Ec" mean anything or is it just to look cool?

EDIT:
Fast palm.
Forgot my physics 101. C normally stands for the speed of light. Big number.

Nonono, as several people have explained here, it's a CS joke, not a physics joke:
The c is superscript, which is supposed to imply exponentiation. In hexadecimal, that makes things 16^12, which happens to be the year he wakes up... or close to it. He actually did remember to add on starting at 1988. It's also, as he observes, an offset of 0x0001000000000000 (in hex), which is yet another stupid (but, for me, delightful) computer joke.

Methinks this is going to end up a massively obscure game played by very strange people like me.

 

[booker]

Okay. I'll admit it. I'm too lazy to go through this page to see if anybody has figured it out yet. So I'll just write this here anyway.

For programmers (I'll remind you that Notch is a programmer), 0x denotes that the following number is in base-16 (a convenient base when dealing with binary [base-2] numbers). 0x10 = Decimal 16. Similarly, 0x0C = Decimal 12. Therefore, what Notch is trying to say is 16[sup]12[/sup], which, hey, equals decimal 281474976710656. Does that number sound familiar?

 

[lord.jeff]

I'm going to call it zero ecstasy (zero x ten c) until an easier to discuss name comes out.

That name sounds good to me.

I'm interest in the game, sounds like it could be a fun unique concept, but I'm gonna have to wait to see a screen shot to make real judgements. It'd be way to easy for this game to end up being more complicated then it is fun, much like I think of Dwarf Fortress.

 

[Treblaine]

0x10c

The mathematician in me is intrigued just by the title alone. Though it still reduces down to just plain '0' it is still really really big zero!

It's the hexidecimal number that translates to 268 in decimal.

But the way the symbols are arranged in the provided picture, wouldn't it be hex-10 to the power of hex-C?

So in decimal, 16 to the power of 12 = big ass number.

Nevermind, been said already

 

[BoxCar]

Sounds waaaaaaaaaaay too complicated to enjoy.