New Game: Minecraft Earth

Post by ummwhat » Fri, May 17, 2019, 7:07 PM UTC

andrepd wrote: post #162

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…

>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 Minecraft blocks to build a bridge and avoid waiting for the train. This is called the tetris effect. I've had it with, you guessed it, tetris. Whenever I get a bout of addiction and play tetris for an hour…

Post by soup10 » Fri, May 17, 2019, 7:29 PM UTC

vanilla_nut wrote: post #77

soup10 wrote: post #34

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by limiting the data to only send and recieve changes in the local area you could probably scale it to a very large number of users, especially since latency isn't a super high concern for building. the part i think is difficult to solve is how to protect people's builds from vandalism while still keeping to the idea of a shared creative server. most public servers of minecraft i saw seem to have this problem, atleas…

In my experience this was never a huge problem -- if I remember correctly, servers I played on actually had some ability to "own" areas of the server so you were the only one with edit privileges for that area. And of course there's always the idea of hiding your construction underground or underwater somewhere hard to find :)

Post by SwiftyBug » Fri, May 17, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #172

andrepd wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 Minecraft blocks to build a bridge and avoid waiting for the train. This is called the tetris effect. I've had it with, you guessed it, tetris. Whenever I get a bout of addiction and play tetris for an hour…

Try spending ~20 hours in a week playing serious racing sims complete with wheel and real-feeling pedals, then hopping into your car on the weekend to drive cross-state to visit family. I also got this with programming at least once. I had been spending all night trying to get something with my WPF view models working (and failing). When I finally got into bed, I was having trouble falling asleep because I was just "…

Post by lloydde » Fri, May 17, 2019, 7:53 PM UTC

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #57

lloydde wrote: post #48

You “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.

Post by ArlenBales » Fri, May 17, 2019, 7:57 PM UTC

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