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Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by mhomde »

Shorel wrote: post #31
mhomde wrote: post #18

Apparently I live right next doors to their office. Explains why I keep running in to Notch wherever I go, almost started to think he was stalking me :) Personally I wouldn't had gone in the "gentlemen's club"-direction, feels a bit old and stuffy as well as having some bad connotations (if it isn't meant to be ironic that is) but each to their own I guess :)

Can you elaborate on the bad connotations? Prohibition era gangsters?

The theme they picked (this is from an article that ran in swedish media) is a british "Gentlemen's club". I don't know about you but for me that is a male-only upper-class establishment. I'm not so sure that's a vibe you want your indie gaming company to project.

Then again, you can't politize everything and it's probably meant to just be different and be in "good fun", shrug

Guess the good thing about having your own company is that you can do what you want :)

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by adestefan »

abrahamsen wrote: post #34
k-mcgrady wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Foul? What about it do you not like? It seems a bit over the top to me (it's an office not a private club) but interested as to why you dislike it so much.

The dark, heavy furniture looks like what (Danish) furniture shops make for the US market, very different from the open, light, and minimalistic Scandinavian (mostly Swedish) design school used for products made for the home market. You know the design from IKEA, but there exists much more expensive (and somewhat higher quality) products. My first reaction was that this might be a deliberate provocation against what…

Or that different people have different tastes. Imagine that!

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by mhomde »

thingie wrote: post #16

No, what I admire most isn't the office itself, though it's quite nice, it's the location. I can imagine that you can, for example, get some nice restaurants and few other option to get a real food within a walking distance. From my window, I can see just three freeways tightly surrounding this place-less office park from each side. And I am hungry, right now, there are just two ugly canteens that close by 2 PM anywa…

Söder is Stockholms "Harlem" ;) While being pretty central it's not located in the most central part of the city, and the only decent lunch place around here just closed last week, ack! :)

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by JackC »

zerostar07 wrote: post #24

No light No light This is some kind of ultimate mancave, I can't imagine a girl working in there.

Hey, I don't know why you assume Mojang doesn't employ women. They totally have ... uh ... two female employees out of 28?

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mojang_AB#Current_employee...

Oh, so that's why.

Incidentally, I don't mean to call you out in particular, but when you call grownup female programmers "girls," lots of very cool women will decide to hang out somewhere else -- sort of for the same reason black men in the US aren't going to love it if someone calls them "boys." Not trying to police your language, just something to think about.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by _djo_ »

TylerE wrote: post #39
anonymouz wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems to be quite a different story to me: Mojang has, with minimal expenses, already created an extremely successful (and profitable) game. It seems that they are now using some of that cash to get a really nice office. Ion Storm on the other hand basically used their fame and some promises of a future product to get a load of cash from investors, and spent that on a very nice office.

And now they have non-minimal expenses, and they are unlikely to have another hit of even half Minecraft's success ever again - Minecraft was a HUGE outlier.

Erm, 0x10c?[0] That's shaping up to be potential Minecraft-level success, if Notch can deliver what has been promised.

[0] http://0x10c.com

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by JustinJ70s »

TylerE wrote: post #39
anonymouz wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems to be quite a different story to me: Mojang has, with minimal expenses, already created an extremely successful (and profitable) game. It seems that they are now using some of that cash to get a really nice office. Ion Storm on the other hand basically used their fame and some promises of a future product to get a load of cash from investors, and spent that on a very nice office.

And now they have non-minimal expenses, and they are unlikely to have another hit of even half Minecraft's success ever again - Minecraft was a HUGE outlier.

Yup. I think we're going to see this more and more. Companies that generate significant success from outliers, find funky ways to burn through the (substantial) cash by growing and then are unable to repeat their initial success to keep fuelling things. If they can repeat the success then more power to them.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by paulhauggis »

JackC wrote: post #44
zerostar07 wrote: post #24

No light No light This is some kind of ultimate mancave, I can't imagine a girl working in there.

Hey, I don't know why you assume Mojang doesn't employ women. They totally have ... uh ... two female employees out of 28? http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mojang_AB#Current_employee... Oh, so that's why. Incidentally, I don't mean to call you out in particular, but when you call grownup female programmers "girls," lots of very cool women will decide to hang out somewhere else -- sort of for the same reason black me…

"sort of for the same reason black men in the US aren't going to love it if someone calls them "boys."

Why oh why do you need to point this out? I use the words girls and guys all the time and it doesn't mean anything racist or sexist.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by king_jester »

JackC wrote: post #44
zerostar07 wrote: post #24

No light No light This is some kind of ultimate mancave, I can't imagine a girl working in there.

Hey, I don't know why you assume Mojang doesn't employ women. They totally have ... uh ... two female employees out of 28? http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mojang_AB#Current_employee... Oh, so that's why. Incidentally, I don't mean to call you out in particular, but when you call grownup female programmers "girls," lots of very cool women will decide to hang out somewhere else -- sort of for the same reason black me…

> Incidentally, I don't mean to call you out in particular, but when you call grownup female programmers "girls," lots of very cool women will decide to hang out somewhere else -- sort of for the same reason black men in the US aren't going to love it if someone calls them "boys."

I agree with you that calling female programmers and coworkers as girls is demeaning, but it IS NOT the same as calling a black man a boy, which has a long history of racist oppression.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by JustinJ70s »

_djo_ wrote: post #45
TylerE wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And now they have non-minimal expenses, and they are unlikely to have another hit of even half Minecraft's success ever again - Minecraft was a HUGE outlier.

Erm, 0x10c?[0] That's shaping up to be potential Minecraft-level success, if Notch can deliver what has been promised. [0] http://0x10c.com

One can only wonder if this game is going to be too geeky to cross over to significant adoption. I know a lot of people that got into Minecraft that would probably struggle with 0x10c.

Re: You won't believe how nice Notch's office is

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Post by crazypyro »

_djo_ wrote: post #45
TylerE wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And now they have non-minimal expenses, and they are unlikely to have another hit of even half Minecraft's success ever again - Minecraft was a HUGE outlier.

Erm, 0x10c?[0] That's shaping up to be potential Minecraft-level success, if Notch can deliver what has been promised. [0] http://0x10c.com

While this concept appeals to me, I personally don't see this ever coming close to the mass market appeal of Minecraft.
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