XBL Indie Dev Clones Minecraft With FortressCraft

[iLikeHippos]

Well, I'm lazy, my computer is shitty and I own an xbox 360 with Xbox Live.

... Sweet. I might just give it a bash.

 

[BioHazardMan]

That's like saying gee, I've made 50 million dollars, so why in the hell would I want to make 100 million?

That logic, doesn't make sense.

Depends. Would you want to port to a console you have no interest in to get more money when you have so much money you have no idea what to do with it all?

Still don't think a console version would sell as well as the PC version anyways. What makes you think he'd make double what he has just by putting it on xbox? My xbox-only friends all hate minecraft, even after playing it.

Well if you are a smart business person this would make more than enough sense.

It's all about getting more money, maybe he could open a whole studio.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Oh wow it rips off TWO GAMES.

Dwarf Fortress.
+
Minecraft.
=
Fortress Craft.

Look up the features, they are shamelessly cloned.

Really?

...

Actually, that doesn't sound that bad. The name isn't even trying to be original though.

Doesn't effect me, I'm kinda meh when it comes to Minecraft lately anyways.

 

[Someone Depressing]

So it's basically Minecraft except polished look's nicer and after you've bought it up-dates wont be free.

I ain't looking forward to it at all. Minecraft is basically becoming it's own Genre. Plus I cant imagine how'd you'd play Minecraft on an XBOX Controller.

EDIT : Looking more into it, it has Concepts from from Dwarf-fortress. Wow ... Minecraft was an exception, it's a unique PC Game that's selling thousands of copies a day, but now Dwarf-Fortress and ripping of both of their names and features, I Call Bullshit on This one!

Edit ... Edit : WTF Is up with the music? The game Rips MC off so hard that is basically probally has the same plot "You wake up on an island with amnesia." What is so dramatic? We're not fucking saving the world we're exploring mines and islands!

 

[Ekit]

Oh, come on Goldman. Minecraft fans should look FORWARD to someone ripping off the game we already love? They're just jumping on the Minecraft bandwagon for the money. I suppose you'd support Microsoft making a game titled "Legend of Belda" in which a pointy-eared kid in a green tunic slew a pig and saved a princess and found four golden glowing squares of power too, right? This greed in the industry is exactly what we should be ignoring and not buying into. Indie developers should focus on making new, creative, innovative game experiences like Notch already did with Minecraft, not blatantly copying each other for profit.

This guy speaks the truth.

I haven't played the game so I don't know for sure. But this looks REALLY similar to Minecraft and if it isn't a lazy rip-off of an original title, why make it so similar?

 

[terror_ninja]

It doesnt look as good as Minecraft. The water certianly looks better but I bet you cant mod this game.

Oh also, I have played Minecraft with my Xbox PC controller. Its not very good. I thought itd be awesome. It turned out to be very difficult and not much fun at all. I have reverted to using my mouse.

 

[squid5580]

God the responses are hilarious. By this logic only one company should be allowed to make FPSes.

 

[Smooth Operator]

So they just stole it and are now reselling it?!

Wow, and people say pirates are bad, atleast they don't put the games on XBL and sell as their own...

 

[RA92]

This is as inspired bye" as Windows was "Inspired by" Mac's and that led to a massive out of court settlement by Microsoft. Just par for the course for MS. cut and paste software development.

Bullshit. Apple. Microsoft. All. Bullshit.

Both Windows and Mac ripped off the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto>Xerox Alto.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Xerox_Alto_mit_Rechner.JPG/450px-Xerox_Alto_mit_Rechner.JPG

Agreed. But to defend apple and ms just a bit, xerox was sitting on it for years and told the group that came up with it, that is was stupid. Had it not been used by them we might not be sitting on this site today

Yeah, I mean, imagine Xerox in an alternate reality holding both Apple's and Microsoft's market, defining personal computers, creating the internet (Xerox's XNS protocol suite was a precursor to the Internet Protocol), changing the course of history forever...

Instead of associating themselves with the cursing of office workers with the goddamned jammed photocopy machines!

Stupidest. Decision. EVER.

 

[terror_ninja]

God the responses are hilarious. By this logic only one company should be allowed to make FPSes.

I was thiking that aswell lol. So now crafting has become a genre

 

[roostuf]

Well it was going to happen eventually, but im glad to see that it wasn't "adapted" to XBLA by microsoft or any other giant soulless companies.

 

[Samechiel]

FortressCraft is probably one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.

The guy behind it has worked for a number of game companies -he worked with Bullfrog, for fuck's sake. That's more than enough right there to give me a raging ladyboner.

He's mashing together Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, and Dungeon Keeper into brutal amalgam of awesome. So far, it's higher quality and more stable (read: not made in java) than Minecraft and he's done the whole thing in about six weeks. It takes Notch six weeks to add in a different color of block. Adding together the cost of each projected chapter, you'll be paying about 8 bucks for the finished product -vs. Minecraft's 20 bucks for a product that not only isn't even out of beta, but will likely NEVER be out of beta.

But the best part? Oh, the best part is the massive bruja the Notch Defense Force has been stirring up. All over the internet rages a mighty shitstorm of unmitigated asspain. it's glorious.

I'm to understand that the expected launch date for FC Chapter 1 is March 4th, and that it will essentially be Minecraft's Classic mode with a serious facelift.

I, for one, will have my 80 MSP ready and waiting.

 

[Hungry Donner]

I don't have a problem with graphical enhancements for Minecraft, in fact the upgraded light/shadow system that went up yesterday is great. However as with many others in this thread I can't help but find Fortress Craft really ugly, the graphics engine may be better but the graphics themselves look like crap. The combination of better graphics and an extremely blocky world is also jarring, the lower textures and simplified effects of Minecraft may be simple but at least the visual are consistent, adding more realistic water to lego world just underscores how blocky legos really are.

I don't really mind clones, they're an ingrained part of the industry and really media as a whole (props to Tom Goldman and every other reporter who mentions Infiniminer when reporting on Fortress Craft). If it's a bad clone it won't hurt Minecraft, if it's a good clone the two will likely both benefit from this. Who knows, maybe this is the beginning of a new genre and geeks of the future will squabble over which game really started it.

 

[Lance Arrow]

Honestly, I think this is exactly what Minecraft needs: a competitor. So Notch will get off his lazy ass and put the update machine in 6th gear.

 

[Weslebear]

I very much enjoy the look of the water and how it moves, that in actual Minecraft would be beautiful.

Otherwise it looks like a pile of wank.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

I can say that I will be looking into getting. Minecraft is awesome and everything, but my PC doesn't run it very well so having a similar game on the XBOX would be cool. Also, Minecraft is in Java and as far as I'm aware, an XBOX can't run games written in Java so it wouldn't be coming anyway.

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

I looked into minecraft and thought "that looks unfinished and for the same price I could get a preowned game I want". Not that I believe a game needs good graphics to be good, its just minecraft looks unfinished and sloppy in terms of graphics and gameplay.

Now this comes along and I still think it's ugly and unfinished looking however it is a step in the right direction.

I see the process like this:
someone invents this (infiniminer):

someone else populises (minecraft) it by inventing this:

someone else cashes in the popularity by inventing this:

and if the natural process continues we eventually end up with something I want to own like this:

[sub]Note: Cars are for display purposes only there is no other hidden meaning[/sub]

 

[standokan]

sue them, sue them, SUE THEM!!

As I said before not going to happen. What ground would they have to sue them on? You can't copyright game mechanics or look and feel. Unless they stole code or artwork it's fair game.

I know that it's not going to happen but sue them sounds better than kill them

 

[AlternatePFG]

Good. If there's one thing Minecraft needs it's some kind of competitor to hopefully make Notch and co. start supporting their game properly.

Haha, yeah you got a point.

Maybe they'll get to the point where each update adds significant content to the game, rather than just waiting weeks for them to add such revolutionary content as beds.

 

[chickenlord]

...if i was mojang i would sue the pants off these guys... it might not get anywhere but just on principle...im going to criticize it at the moment cause im a dedicated notch/mojang/minecraft fan... but if they admit that most of the credit should go to notch then ill forgive and get the game