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Every FPS is a doom clone.
every FPS is a wolfenstein clone
Every FPS is a MIDI Maze clone.
New Game: Minecraft Earth
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Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth
#52This reminds me of when I first discovered Minecraft in university. I was just going to play for a couple hours before bed, and I got sucked into the game-loop and before I knew it the sun was coming up. A few days later, I was walking toward the railroad crossing I often had to wait at between my house and campus, and just for a moment looked at those tracks and I seriously thought about where I should place the Min…
My kids are obsessed. Literally everything they say to me starts with "Daddy, on minecraft, ...." It's all they talk about, including with each other. They even act it out in playtime. Although as someone who has never played I basically understand nothing they are telling me. It seems pretty creative tho, and they seem to be learning a lot from it, so not too bothered. That said they are limited to 1 hour per sat an…
Sounds like a good time for a valuable life lesson about gauging counterparty interest in the topic at hand. Which so many people in the CS program at uni could have used.
shudders, remembering a 20 minute "conversation" about DnD crossbow rules I somehow ended up in
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#53You “see a patch of grass” could read awfully dystopian. That opening paragraph might come back to haunt them. With climate change possibly accelerating unless global coordinated activity, I giggled at first to this opener that basically says cover that “patch” of “real-life” nature. > Picture the scene: you’re walking through your neighbourhood and see a patch of grass. Grass is lovely and all, but you see this patc…
Are you proposing that due to climate change, there is a serious possibility of the extinction of grass?
Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth
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From the Verge review I get the impression you only see stuff your friends have placed. They're playing around with ideas on how to let other content in but are well aware of the dong & swastika problem.
That solution leaves out kids without friends; I understand why they do it but it may be a price too high to pay.
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> using the worst input imaginable (touch screen) to do nice builds. Minecraft's controls for building stuff is very simple - you just point and click to place or remove stuff depending on your active item. Here you can point (via gyroscope, etc) and tap and you could even "scrub" to remove stuff. This could be done with just a hand (the phone in portrait mode, you tap/scrub with your thumb).
One scene in the trailer showed a smaller model on a table; what if they use the Minecraft for mobile's UI to create a model in-game, which you can then place (to scale) in a location?
I was going to say the same thing. I'd be really surprised if they didn't have some sort of blueprint link from full game -> mobile.
Seems a no-brainer.
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#56This is brilliant... and PKDickian (is this a term? it should be).
We can imagine a distopic future with a thin boundary between the physical world and VR where you would travel through totally destitute neighbourhoods in real life, while seeing great works of art in VR that were built by the users of a virtual world game akin to this.
Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth
#57You “see a patch of grass” could read awfully dystopian. That opening paragraph might come back to haunt them. With climate change possibly accelerating unless global coordinated activity, I giggled at first to this opener that basically says cover that “patch” of “real-life” nature. > Picture the scene: you’re walking through your neighbourhood and see a patch of grass. Grass is lovely and all, but you see this patc…
What is the technical term for being a “doom and gloomer”?
Because i have to tell you, when even video game posts that mention grass can be about climate change - it’s not helping the cause. It’s going to make people sick of hearing about it - regardless if they agree and won’t sway someone if they don’t.
I assume there is a better term for scandal fatigue. That some smart HN user knows.
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#58Part of me is like "this is dope!" and another part of me is like "are we so lazy/poor due to income inequality that actually learning how to build things is out of the picture now?"
The desire to build stuff as a kid without the funds to buy wood/metal is what got me into programming.
I could have either bought materials for 1-3 projects and then not been able to build anything else, or build a computer (back then it was cheaper to build than buy) and then have limitless ability to build things digitally.
Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth
#59Notes from the FAQ: > Minecraft Earth will be free to play. > Minecraft Earth is coming to iOS and Android this summer on AR-capable devices. We’ll have more to share soon.
Interesting. I can't imagine they're doing all this out of the goodness of their hearts. Wonder if they'll follow the cosmetic upgrade store, or something more akin to PokemonGO's monetization mechanics
The Verge article mentions an in-game currency (rupees) so I expect they are going down the 'in-game shop' route. With the option that you grind for the in-game currency or you can just swap real money for game money. Hopefully they wont make this pay to win and stick to just cosmetics. They have stated in the FAQ that they are not doing loot boxes so there is hope.
Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the Verge review I get the impression you only see stuff your friends have placed. They're playing around with ideas on how to let other content in but are well aware of the dong & swastika problem.
That solution leaves out kids without friends; I understand why they do it but it may be a price too high to pay.
Why is it everything has to be padded and safe and inclusive for everyone all the time now?
Do you people not remember your own childhoods?