Minecraftly: Inspire kids to learn computing via Minecraft
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Re: Minecraftly: Inspire kids to learn computing via Minecraft
#2What a fascinating idea. Looks pretty cool — if I ever get back into vanilla Minecraft I'll give it a shot (I've been 100% modpacks for a few years now). Any plans to support some of the more popular modpacks? I can imagine that the server costs for that could get brutal though.
These days I'm thinking of getting into minetest (http://www.minetest.net/), but the mod scene is pretty primitive there.
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#3This might make a good "Show HN" (guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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#4Great idea, would be nice to explain how pricing and teleportation between servers works on the landing page.
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#5Got two kids and their mum been playing MCPE all day on mobile devices. I can hear her yelling instructions to her army of builders/warriors as I write. I put together a VPS instance with PocketMine (followed by ImagicalMine, a fork) for them but with no mob ai and lots of other problems it didn't hold their interest compared with playing on the local network.
It is a pity that the mobile version isn't more open so third party servers can support it. The family might enjoy something like this but I would never get them lugging a laptop around and driving minecraft with a mouse and keyboard.
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#6Haven't Mojang added restrictions on people being able to charge real money for in-game items? Would be interesting to know how Minecraftly gets around it.
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#7Who is paying for this???
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#8The "learning" element seems very loosely connected to the product. Call it what it is - a scalable minecraft server.
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#9Who is paying for this???
I wondered the same thing since TANSTAAFL. Looks like there's a "store" selling various in-game perks: https://s.m.ly/
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#10Odd feature matrix. The free version has all the benefits; the paid version has all the limitations.
edit: Oops, that's the second time I've glossed over a site and mistaken a company's competitive analysis for a multi-tier pricing plan.