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Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by ccffpphh »

axus wrote: post #60
ccffpphh wrote: post #52

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Used to a play a server called Civcraft that was persistent for several years - server-side plugins enabled preservation of structures (to an extent) through reinforcement (Citadel), culling of mobs using "Mustercull", biome-specific farming with RealisticBiomes, and an imprisonment system (PrisonPearl) which gave players the power to ban others from the server. People naturally formed their own laws, governments, so…

There are still direct descendants of CivCraft around; CivEx, CivClassics, and CivRealms are currently online. The lead developer of CivCraft went on to do a lot of founding work on Althea mesh networking ( https://althea.net/ )

All of those are pretty awful, honestly. There's no guarantee of permanence like the original had (first one shut down due to hacked map, second due to mass duping ruining the economy), the admins are pretty one sided, and the culture is ruined due to everyone focusing on building megavaults. Ttk did do well with Altheanet, yeah. I think he's on this forum as well.

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by narag »

tomc1985 wrote: post #4
Razengan wrote: post #3

A multiplayer persistent world like Minecraft with physics would be amazing, and probably replicate Minecraft's success. e.g. If I chop down a tree at the top of a hill it could roll down and potentially wreck your house. Or causing cave-ins and avalanches from indiscriminate mining. Building dams and rerouting rivers. Building realistic defenses and then siege weapons. Fun Add in critter breeding and predation for d…

Space Engineers might be interesting to you Though the physics strains to keep up with more complex creations/scenarios, I have had great fun building big ships and then smashing them into things (or each other). It's another game where they give you a sandbox and the possibilities are up to you They even give you a super-threadbare programming environment with which you can write C# code

Is the game still being developed? I bought it in pre-release and haven't looked at it in years.

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by mastazi »

linuxhansl wrote: post #65

There is also https://www.minetest.net/ . It's fully open source and free, and although it is written in C++ it has a Lua modding API with many mods. Minetest itself is just the engine with basic functionality such as terrain generation and basic physics. Mobs, and other things are added via mods. Mods can be installed manually or in-game from https://content.minetest.net/ .

The problem I had with Minetest, is that the base sandbox is quite boring and I think you're not supposed to be playing it on its own, but then when it comes to mods there is so much choice and I couldn't find a place to start from (something like: "if you are a beginner, start from these 5 mods"), so I don't know where to start from. Any suggestions?

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by wingerlang »

goldcd wrote: post #37
a13n wrote: post #35

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> Then I remember when MS bought it for silly money. Full on WTF? headspin. Considering Minecraft has over 176 million copies sold, not to mention the endless amount of merchandise and spin-offs I'm sure MS is getting royalties on, it looks like they got a bargain at $2.5B.

Maybe I didn't make my point clearly enough. To me - it was a silly fun game I spent an evening with - and then never touched again. The whole "becoming a thing" completely missed me. I maybe say it was on Android, or Xbox - but being an old fart completely missed the fact that millions had turned up and were playing it (and PewDiePie was a name of somebody etc etc)

I played it overnight nonstop after buying it, also in 2011 I think (infdev anyone?). Then also never touched it again. However I am curious how you missed the hugeness of it for so long, did you not follow gaming sites or anything gaming on YouTube similar at all?

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by mastazi »

I agree with the article, Roblox certainly doesn't please the Minecraft crowds - or at least, not everyone among them.

I'm curious about Hytale, an RPG game currently under development, made by Hypixel which is the developer behind one of the most successful Minecraft servers.

Another title that I was excited about was Cube World but after reading the reviews, it seems it didn't really hold up to the hype.

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by eyphka »

A few commenters are responding on how they think certain features in addition to Minecraft would make a killer game. I don’t think Minecraft’s success had anything to do with its featureset. To paraphrase notch, he believed in a model of good enough vs perfect and continually released updates that added the minimal needed for the feature he wanted, responding to user feedback in real-time. This was unheard of at the time for how games were developed, in addition his target user was the lowest common denominator in terms of gamers, his mother, whom self described never played games.

“In addition to that, he released updates often, in accordance with the Swedish saying “hellre än bra” (meaning someone who prefers spontaneity over perfection). As soon as a new function or bug-fix was in place, he made it available via his site, asking players for help in testing and improving it.” https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by tomc1985 »

narag wrote: post #82
tomc1985 wrote: post #4

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Space Engineers might be interesting to you Though the physics strains to keep up with more complex creations/scenarios, I have had great fun building big ships and then smashing them into things (or each other). It's another game where they give you a sandbox and the possibilities are up to you They even give you a super-threadbare programming environment with which you can write C# code

Is the game still being developed? I bought it in pre-release and haven't looked at it in years.

Yeah, it recently hit 1.0. They're also adding some things they said they wouldn't, namely more PvE stuff. I'm hoping they add NPCs of some kind with scriptable behavior to give us something to fight

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by cwyers »

monkeywork wrote: post #77
zeta0134 wrote: post #64

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No, not really. There's a "Windows" version for Windows-based desktops that can co-mingle with the other C++ versions, but the main version of the game is still based on Java, with the features being ported to the various console versions shortly after. The Java version remains the only way to play Minecraft on Mac and Linux, for example, and it's also where pretty much the entire modding scene lives. It's a little c…

There are two main versions of Minecraft. Minecraft (formerly known as bedrock) which is the C++ edition and runs and plays across Windows 10, Android, iOS, and Xbox. Minecraft Java Edition (formerly known as minecraft) which as the name implies runs on Java and can play between Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Feature sets of the game are VERY close now (and get closer each release) with the major difference between them…

> Minecraft (formerly known as bedrock) which is the C++ edition and runs and plays across Windows 10, Android, iOS, and Xbox.

Switch too. There are rumors that the Playstation 4 will receive a version based on Bedrock as well, but it's not confirmed.

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by phaedryx »

goldcd wrote: post #34

Minecraft is the game that made me feel old - and that I was genuinely missing out on something. I seemingly signed up my €15 in 2011 and had fun. Then forgot about it. Then I remember when MS bought it for silly money. Full on WTF? headspin. Then I visited my former-bridesmaid, who shared with me what she'd built on her ipad. I'd no idea what she was talking about, quickly stopped randomly hitting stuff when her ups…

Did you try any mods? You can make minecraft into all variations of games.

I currently have a persistent server I run for my kids. My son loves to explore and fight things, my daughter likes to build things, and I like to make machines with redstone. It's fun that we have something that we can play together that appeals to all of us.

Re: Nostalgia for Minecraft

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Post by zamadatix »

eyphka wrote: post #86

A few commenters are responding on how they think certain features in addition to Minecraft would make a killer game. I don’t think Minecraft’s success had anything to do with its featureset. To paraphrase notch, he believed in a model of good enough vs perfect and continually released updates that added the minimal needed for the feature he wanted, responding to user feedback in real-time. This was unheard of at the…

Plenty of boring casual games with little success release early and often.

I don't think there is any 2 thing that made Minecraft a success. It's a combination of a great nu!bet of things but most importantly a combination of a great number of things done right together not just as you'd view them individually.

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