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Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Explain why?

Because Minecraft is a very buggy, poorly designed product. Notch is only "respected" as a programmer by people who have never looked into his programming.

Well it's good enough to make him a very rich man. Oh and when did you get a chance to look at his code and designs?

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Because Minecraft is a very buggy, poorly designed product. Notch is only "respected" as a programmer by people who have never looked into his programming.

Well it's good enough to make him a very rich man. Oh and when did you get a chance to look at his code and designs?

So because someone is rich that makes them a good programmer? I have done some projects with the Minecraft SMP protocol (which is awful), and I write plugins for it. So yeah, I know a bit about its design.

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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Can you list some of them? The concept of editing the game loop code while the game is still running is new to me (even though apparently this has been around for a long time).

Using a paint program as a level editor is something more people should be exposed to.

You can do that with TuxRacer, if you just want to play with the idea. http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/faq.html#newcourses

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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I have lost count of the number of things I learned. Particularly new ways of doing things.

Can you list some of them? The concept of editing the game loop code while the game is still running is new to me (even though apparently this has been around for a long time).

Yep. Hot code loading is something I do every day in Erlang and couldn't live without :)

Re: Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

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post #79

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Explain why?

Because Minecraft is a very buggy, poorly designed product. Notch is only "respected" as a programmer by people who have never looked into his programming.

"Not everything worth doing, is worth doing well" -- _Soul_of_a_new_machine_
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