Notch Unveils His New Game

[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.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Subscription fee? Jeez this guy has completely sold out yet people still worship the damn guy like he's the Neo of gaming.

Minecraft wasn't free. It had a single purchase model. This has a subscription payment model.

Both are equally capitalistic. If one is selling out so is the other.

 

[DiamanteGeeza]

Subscription fee? Jeez this guy has completely sold out yet people still worship the damn guy like he's the Neo of gaming.

Minecraft wasn't free. It had a single purchase model. This has a subscription payment model.

Both are equally capitalistic. If one is selling out so is the other.

And since when has getting paid for your work been classed as "selling out"? If that's the case, I "sold out" when I first cleaned my Dad's car in return for cash when I was a wee laddie.

(And I'm not suggesting that you're suggesting he is selling out... I just chose your post to quote.

 

[Varitel]

After release, I give it two weeks before someone makes a C compiler for the shipboard computer.

 

[tensorproduct]

Subscription fee? Jeez this guy has completely sold out yet people still worship the damn guy like he's the Neo of gaming.

Minecraft wasn't free. It had a single purchase model. This has a subscription payment model.

Both are equally capitalistic. If one is selling out so is the other.

And since when has getting paid for your work been classed as "selling out"? If that's the case, I "sold out" when I first cleaned my Dad's car in return for cash when I was a wee laddie.

(And I'm not suggesting that you're suggesting he is selling out... I just chose your post to quote.

I think that there was a time where "selling out" meant sacrificing you artistic vision for the sake of whatever large company was giving you facilities and publicity and legitimacy. These are things that don't apply to Notch in any way. If he charges you for things, it's because he wants your money, not that The Man does.

 

[CrystalShadow]

The truth is that I'm not sure exactly what Notch's new game is in any specific sense and I have no idea how to pronounce the title [although I suspect there's some kind of phonetic play going on here; Zero Extents, perhaps?],

0x10^c

...

Hmm well, 0x is a common prefix in computing indicating a hexidecimal number...

If you translate this a little, you get:

hexidecimal 10 to the power of c

But taking some common abbreviations, you could get this instead:

hex-ten-c

and a bit of phonetic massaging makes;

ex-ten-c, which sounds very close to

extents.

So... That's one possible phonetic derivation, and one that could vaguely fit the game concept.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Subscription fee? Jeez this guy has completely sold out yet people still worship the damn guy like he's the Neo of gaming.

Minecraft wasn't free. It had a single purchase model. This has a subscription payment model.

Both are equally capitalistic. If one is selling out so is the other.

And since when has getting paid for your work been classed as "selling out"? If that's the case, I "sold out" when I first cleaned my Dad's car in return for cash when I was a wee laddie.

(And I'm not suggesting that you're suggesting he is selling out... I just chose your post to quote.

It isn't selling out. I don't like Capitalism, but the system is what it is. Getting paid is something you've gotta do and Notch found a good way to do that.