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Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by wingerlang »

skohan wrote: post #44

This 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…

The first time I played it (infdev or indev) I think I played it nonstop for 24h+, then I basically never played it again.

As for the "seeing blocks". I had a period where I played some form of match-3 game, and while walking around I couldn't stop imagining arranging people walking into threes.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by earenndil »

saddestcatever wrote: post #70
retube wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Minecraft is one of the few games that I think everyone should try. It's not just "another video game", but something quite unique. It hits a certain part of the brain in both "creative expression" and "exploring the unknown" that we exercise so rarely in day to day life (or in other games). It's no wonder it really sticks with kids and becomes a way for them to express imagination. Make sure you sit down and try pla…

I don't know; I tried minecraft, and just...couldn't get into it. I did play dwarf fortress briefly, though, and I think that gave me some of the feelings people who get really sucked into minecraft get.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by jasonmp85 »

skohan wrote: post #44

This 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…

I mean, this is better than the time I stayed up all night playing GTA San Andreas in a friend's dorm room during college and while drowsily stumbling home felt an intense need to flee when I heard police sirens approaching.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by yohann305 »

fenomas wrote: post #84

Since there's not much info on this, and since I missed the relevant thread last week, I'll just note here for the record that Mojang's other recent release, a browser-based retro game called Minecraft Classic, was built on my voxel game engine. [game] https://classic.minecraft.net/ [engine] https://github.com/andyhall/noa/ if anyone's interested. It's pretty weird waking up one morning to find out that Mojang built…

what an achievement, good job! I hope you'll get handsomely paid for it, cheers

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by malnourish »

yohann305 wrote: post #94
fenomas wrote: post #84

Since there's not much info on this, and since I missed the relevant thread last week, I'll just note here for the record that Mojang's other recent release, a browser-based retro game called Minecraft Classic, was built on my voxel game engine. [game] https://classic.minecraft.net/ [engine] https://github.com/andyhall/noa/ if anyone's interested. It's pretty weird waking up one morning to find out that Mojang built…

what an achievement, good job! I hope you'll get handsomely paid for it, cheers

Unless the parent were to be hired in some capacity, why would they be paid for it? The project has the MIT License.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by fenomas »

ralphstodomingo wrote: post #90
fenomas wrote: post #84

Since there's not much info on this, and since I missed the relevant thread last week, I'll just note here for the record that Mojang's other recent release, a browser-based retro game called Minecraft Classic, was built on my voxel game engine. [game] https://classic.minecraft.net/ [engine] https://github.com/andyhall/noa/ if anyone's interested. It's pretty weird waking up one morning to find out that Mojang built…

Congratulations! Really cool of them and you. Is there a statement from Minecraft how much they'll be developing this?

Thank you! But I don't know a thing about it - I only found out it existed because an internet citizen looked at the source and let me know.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by zentiggr »

fenomas wrote: post #84

Since there's not much info on this, and since I missed the relevant thread last week, I'll just note here for the record that Mojang's other recent release, a browser-based retro game called Minecraft Classic, was built on my voxel game engine. [game] https://classic.minecraft.net/ [engine] https://github.com/andyhall/noa/ if anyone's interested. It's pretty weird waking up one morning to find out that Mojang built…

Having trouble controlling classic.minecraft.net on Win10/Firefox (with uMatrix but everything requested whitelisted). Anyone have a discussion site / advice?

Edit: got the mouse to switch by invoking 'b' to choose block. Going to be a learning curve, a near newbie in Minecraft.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by heliophobicdude »

yohann305 wrote: post #94
fenomas wrote: post #84

Since there's not much info on this, and since I missed the relevant thread last week, I'll just note here for the record that Mojang's other recent release, a browser-based retro game called Minecraft Classic, was built on my voxel game engine. [game] https://classic.minecraft.net/ [engine] https://github.com/andyhall/noa/ if anyone's interested. It's pretty weird waking up one morning to find out that Mojang built…

what an achievement, good job! I hope you'll get handsomely paid for it, cheers

fenomas used a MIT license so Microsoft doesn’t have to pay them, unless Microsoft feels charitable.

Re: New Game: Minecraft Earth

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Post by behringer »

malnourish wrote: post #96
yohann305 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what an achievement, good job! I hope you'll get handsomely paid for it, cheers

Unless the parent were to be hired in some capacity, why would they be paid for it? The project has the MIT License.

and now the reason for the GNU GPL license becomes apparent. If some unfathomably wealthy corporation founded by one of the richest person to have ever lived isn't going to pay you for your work, at least you can get something out of it by making them open source their work.
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