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I'm 2 years into development of my sandbox game, Moonman

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Re: I'm 2 years into development of my sandbox game, Moonman

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Minecraft is a clone and evolution of Infiniminer.

Notch has stated that he originally wanted a game like Dwarf Fortress in tone before he stumbled upon Infiniminer[1]. I think you are right in that it's more correct to say Minecraft is a clone and evolution of Infiniminer, but was heavily inspired by Dwarf Fortress. [1]: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/09/building-a-hit-one-block-at-a-time-the-creation-of-minecraft/

Oh definitely. I didn't really mean to say it wasn't, even if it sounded a bit like it.

Re: I'm 2 years into development of my sandbox game, Moonman

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Ha, thanks, yeah it's taken a while, and I took a lot of wrong turns. The game is commercial and so closed source, as I'm trying to turn this into a paid day job. And besides, my code is dense and horrible. ;)

Sigh... You can open source it and turn it into a paid day job. No one is going to not pay you because the code's available. That said, 2D Minecraft? Hell. Yes.

Yeah, how many do you think would want to compile the game themselves? :/

Re: I'm 2 years into development of my sandbox game, Moonman

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Woah! AWESOME! You actually MADE all that? That's the ambitious kinda stuff I only manage to dream about. But you actually BUILT that stuff! Major Kudos! :D Please put it up on github! I am sure there's a ton of stuff we could all learn from it, not to mention we'd love to help, pushing the project closer to completion. (Unless of course you plan on putting the game on a market place and earning money from it)

Ha, thanks, yeah it's taken a while, and I took a lot of wrong turns. The game is commercial and so closed source, as I'm trying to turn this into a paid day job. And besides, my code is dense and horrible. ;)

Well then maybe open source bits and pieces of it? Because you list a lot of really cool stuff that you did in the game and we'd love to see that. You could just blog about it every now and then and explain some the really complex parts one at a time
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