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As silly as it sounds, I really look forward to you guys posting about this game. I've still written off PC gaming as a whole but man, this is the game I wanted more than anything when I was 11.
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I think what Devo's trying to say is:
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The client however costs around 10 euros, or 13 whatever bucks to you across the puddle. Relatively cheap price for a game you will get every future update for (as it is still technically in alpha) and how much time you can spend in it. Quote:
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I've finally gotten around to playing a little more, finally found some diamond :D Solo Minecraft is ok, but i think i'll probably have more fun with it once i can get on to a few multiplayer games next week some time.
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ATTENTION
Please wait until it is clear that Minecraft is good to update. The servers are bogged down from everyone scrambling to get the update and an influx of new players because of that Penny Arcade comic. ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY the new update includes a fabulous GRAY SCREEN OF DEATH. Just wait it out until things are good. You can follow the news by visiting Notch's blog and twitter or visiting the Minecraft forums. The Word of Notch Markus Persson (xnotch) on Twitter Index page - Minecraft Forum - Official Minecraft Forums In the meantime I give you this~
Additional Spam: GOOD NEWS! Notch has fixed the gray screen of death. Delete your current minecraft.exe launcher and download the new one from minecraft.net (which has been reduced to a very basic website to offset bandwidth issues) or you might face update issues. Also for those that don't want to pay for Minecraft but would really like to try it out Notch has made it free for this weekend as a result of all this trouble. |
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Acer pointed me to the recent Notch blog entry that highlighted this fantastic fan trailer a user had made for the game on youtube. I already put it in the OP, but it's worth reposting here for the all-encompassing awesome.
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That guy needs to review more games.
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Also, big update coming around Halloween. http://www.minecraft.net/boo/ Scary new monsters, fish, torches that run out (rumor is current torches will be changed into lanterns which don't run out), a hell zone for transporting across long distances, biomes, and more! Watch as notch just adds pumpkin helmets and says he's too busy to complete it all. |
I've been running a minecraft SMP server for a few friends for the past month or so and we've built some pretty cool things, I've gone and made a map of it..
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6498/world3x.th.jpg If anyone would like to see it in person (in game) just PM me and i'll give you the info :D :P Thoughts would be good to hear. As for the Halloween update.. Thats a whole lot of work for Notch to do in a month and if it goes through it'll be the biggest update in minecraft history. Looking forward to it. |
I heard that the geezer who made this is currently earning around $350,000 a day and a lot of other developers are realising that this kind of game might be the way forward. Not sure how true it is but rumours like this are generally based on something.
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Yeah I think that number's a bit inflated but at $10/pop and 300,000 or so copies actually paid for he's doing pretty well for himself. I'm not sure Notch's decision to turn the whole thing into some massive venture is the best decision though, as well-loved as Minecraft is could there possibly be that much of an untapped market left for it? It's a great little thing but I don't think it's something that could ever really see "mainstream" success. No amount of patches is going to change the fact that Minecraft really has no endgame and there's no compelling goal underlying all the dig dig get diamond.
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I think Notch probably will finish Minecraft one day with only small updates every now and then valve style afterward and then make another game. That's probably one reason why he's set up a company.
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So I bought the game a few days ago and the one thing that sticks out most for me is the random level generation. It is very clever and makes some interesting things happen. I thought the first world I started in was pretty. I spawned basically between a beach next to an almost flat ocean (it seems more like a very large bay) and a mountain, on the other side of which is a pair of pretty waterfalls and some large arching caverns. Very cool.
Then I start a second world and I get this: Spoiler:
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Did he fuck with the monster spawn rate in the newest update or what
I started a new world and so far every time I've emerged after sunrise I've been beset by 5+ creepers |
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A panorama of a district of a large city me and my pals on our server have been working on:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2ltovpt.jpg The entire city looks like this from above: Spoiler:
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Update from the Notchblog: Minecraft will move to beta on December 20, at which point the price will go up. So, if you haven't bought it by now, but have been thinking about it, now's a pretty good time to take the plunge!
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