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Slightly OT: How addictive is minecraft? It sounds great. But I quit video games a few years back, and don't have good willpower with them. I work from home as well, so there's no natural limits on my time. But I'd love to try the game in a limited way.
This is a free Java applet early version of the game. Perhaps not addictive or polished enough to represent a major distraction.
Slightly OT: How addictive is minecraft? It sounds great. But I quit video games a few years back, and don't have good willpower with them. I work from home as well, so there's no natural limits on my time. But I'd love to try the game in a limited way.
Slightly OT: How addictive is minecraft? It sounds great. But I quit video games a few years back, and don't have good willpower with them. I work from home as well, so there's no natural limits on my time. But I'd love to try the game in a limited way.
Most games sort of pull you along. They want you to finish the whole thing, so there are various incentives to make you want to keep playing and progressing the game's storyline, or your character level or whatnot.
Games like Minecraft are more of an environment to push against. You keep playing because you want to finish your castle of doom or lake of lava or whatever.
Either type of game can suck you in, it just depends on your personality type. Personally, Minecraft doesn't do much for me; I'm much more vulnerable to the "just one more level" attraction of more linear games. I can't speak for you, though.
>"Back before anyone knew who I was, I used to wanted to make huge games" Glad he didn't want to be an english teacher.
> Glad he didn't want to be an english teacher. "English" should be capitalized. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Notch's native language isn't English, is it?
Slightly OT: How addictive is minecraft? It sounds great. But I quit video games a few years back, and don't have good willpower with them. I work from home as well, so there's no natural limits on my time. But I'd love to try the game in a limited way.
Slightly OT: How addictive is minecraft? It sounds great. But I quit video games a few years back, and don't have good willpower with them. I work from home as well, so there's no natural limits on my time. But I'd love to try the game in a limited way.
You sound like you may be similar to me with games so let me lay it out for you.
When you first start playing you know nothing. There's so much to do and learn. You'll be scared of nighttime and dark caves. You won't know how to craft anything. You'll probably get killed a lot and get lost. It will suck you in for the first 30-60 hours while you learn how to play single player.
At that point one of two things happen. Either you really like building structures and you keep playing a lot or you get bored. I got bored.
Then I realized I was only experiencing a small fraction of the game. The modding community is HUGE, larger than any other game I've played. There are hundreds of mods available that expand and modify gameplay making it far more interesting than "vanilla" MC. Each mod can add 5-50+ hours of interesting gameplay.
This isn't even accounting for multiplayer, which can be much different. PvP servers with clans, mod servers with large towns, creative servers with builds that take months to complete.
I'm not saying you shouldn't play. Minecraft is a great game. Just be aware of where it can lead if you don't plan your time well. I've since cut way back and don't play games as much.
One way you can get a good feel for MC is to watch some of the popular YouTubers. I primarily watch the Yogscast but there are plenty of other good ones.
Slightly OT: How addictive is minecraft? It sounds great. But I quit video games a few years back, and don't have good willpower with them. I work from home as well, so there's no natural limits on my time. But I'd love to try the game in a limited way.
http://minecraft.net/classic/play This is a free Java applet early version of the game. Perhaps not addictive or polished enough to represent a major distraction.
Sounds promising for him being back in Ludum Dare this weekend! :-)
This is what I want to do. I want to do smaller games that can fail. I want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak. Sounds promising for him being back in Ludum Dare this weekend! :-)