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[ZylonBane]

My god, how is there not a single mention of Minecraft anywhere on the forums? Or did Search cruelly lie to me?

Minecraft home page
Minecraft on YouTube

But of course, everyone here already knows what Minecraft is... right?

[Koopa64]

Seems interesting. I may look into it more once I understand the kind of genre this game is. Is it a sandbox style game? RPG? Roller Coaster Tycoon even?

[Reaperman]

that does look really neat, I'm rolling through the vids now

[ZylonBane]

Koopa64, on Wed Sep 1, 2010 9:17 PM, said:

Seems interesting. I may look into it more once I understand the kind of genre this game is. Is it a sandbox style game? RPG? Roller Coaster Tycoon even?

It's like a cross between Lego, Dig Dug, The Sims, and Rogue. The "Classic" version on the home page can be played for free in your browser. That's what most of the massive building projects have been made in.

[madmax2069]

wow that looks like some form of the build engine

[Albert]

I saw this game mentioned on another site recently and spent a little time reading about it. Seems like a giant time sink.

..Al

[Bruce Tomlin]

I particularly like the "survival test" version, which I think is no longer linked from the main page.

No time to build elaborate stuff, no torches to keep the enemies away, just survive as long as you can. And when the game ends, that's it, no save files or anything, just start over or go do something else.

http://minecraft.net/survivaltest/

My high score so far is 15190, but that's just when I took the last screen shot. (When you die, the screen gets plastered with a Java bounds error message and you can no longer see your score. You have to screen shot every now and then to record your score.)

Edited by Bruce Tomlin, Thu Sep 2, 2010 7:12 AM.

[Reaperman]

I like the standard survival vids with the torches. It makes safe areas possible, and construction of those areas against the nightly monster raids is really what most interests me. Not quite enough nightly monsters for my taste yet. I picture myself really enjoying a never-ending 'omega man' type scenario.
Still it seems like a sandbox game done right. Lots of potential.

I'd imagine in the final version you'll probably even be able to do things like farm. Why else would there be common livestock wandering all over?

I kind of wish it were on a console though. I hate pc gaming.

Edited by Reaperman, Thu Sep 2, 2010 8:33 AM.

[Bruce Tomlin]

The sheep and pigs drop meat when you kill them. The meat heals you. Even in Survival Test.

And safe areas are for the wesk.

[Lord Thag]

Thanks for posting Zylonbane! (dear god, did I just say that? - just kiddin' man, couldn't resist ). Seriously though, I love this kind of stuff, and I've never even heard of this one before. Much obliged for pointing it out

It looks incredibly cool. Kinda reminds me of Dwarf Fortress, only with more Sim City, and 3d added in.

Check out DF if you like Minecraft. Nothing touches Dwarf Fortress. It's epic. No other game in the universe has moments where your legendary dwarven artificer goes mad, and then makes a hat out of Grundi the Guardsman (which is decorated with spikes, grapefruit, and images of burning cats), and then roam the halls naked murdering people before lighting himself on fire and burning half the fort down. Get it here

May pick up the full version when I get paid. Awesome stuff!

[Bruce Tomlin]

Minecraft is either a FPS survival game or a building blocks game, or some of both.

Dwarf Fortress is a rogue-like RTS, but you get to do some building too.

They really aren't that similar after all, aside from building stuff. In that respect they're "similar" to Lego bricks.

[ZylonBane]

It's like Dwarf Fortress if there was only one dwarf.

[ZylonBane]

Penny Arcade loves Minecraft!




Valve loves Minecraft too!

Heck, the entire Internet loves Minecraft!


Also, Inception meets Minecraft (well, the music anyway).

[dgo]

Just played around with the free version, read some of the maker's blog en watched some vids..

And this one totally sold it to me so I just made a payment so I can play the
latest version.

Amazingly well done fanmade trailer!

[Midnight Synergy]

ZylonBane, on Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:07 PM, said:

Also, Inception meets Minecraft (well, the music anyway).

Comment A: Is there anything that doesn't become instantly awesome when the Inception soundtrack is played? Very cool "trailer".

Comment B: During September, the developer announced that he was making $300,000 in sales every day!!! Just let that sink in for a moment.

(I still haven't played it, I'm afraid to touch it and get instantly sucked into its black hole of lost time!)

Edited by Midnight Synergy, Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:21 PM.

[Midnight Synergy]

Oh, and Exhibit A for my Comment A above:

Inceptionauts:

Seriously, I want to get that game too now, just based on the trailer!

[dgo]

I've been playing pretty much continuously since my last post.. This is pure crack

you might wanna check out the vids from this guy,
recording his adventure from the beginning

Very very entertaining and fun! (I'm playing single player).

One thing, I really hope the-millionaire within a year- dev doesn't get overly enthousiastic
adding features for the beta and final.. It might just destroy the great power it has: it's simplicity at it's
best in a complex world.

best money I've spent on a game in a long time.

Edited by dgo, Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:34 PM.

[Parrothead]

http://www.gamegavel...entry.php?b=210

[Mord]

Albert, on Thu Sep 2, 2010 4:18 AM, said:

I saw this game mentioned on another site recently and spent a little time reading about it. Seems like a giant time sink.

..Al

It is. I can't even run it on my computer and I've been wasting hours away watching OTHERS play it on youtube.

I have a paid account for it all the same, but can't actually do anything with it until I get a new computer which is probably going to be sometime after christmas.

[dgo]

Did you guys see the announcement today ? I'm so afraid this guy is in over his head.. This is the classical
I-buy-me-some-time announcement, which will only increase the pressure on himself to put out updates to
please his paying registered users. Knowing, he's way busy putting together a company and dealing with the very
time consuming attention caused by the overwelming success. Also I hope he'll preserve the balance in the game and doesn't
lose sight of one of it's biggest strengths: simplicity/playability in a complex, random and consistently generated world world.

Don't get me wrong, I hope he keeps his head together, but boy, once you start making promises over a timeline you cannot oversee,
you really need to be in control.

All the luck to Notch

Edited by dgo, Mon Oct 4, 2010 4:55 PM.

[ZylonBane]

PC Gamer loves Minecraft.

[madmax2069]

it looks neat and all, but i am not going to pay for a alpha version of any game just to play it sorry. i will buy one once its final but until then nope.

Edited by madmax2069, Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:03 PM.

[gdement]

I tried the free version a few days ago. I ran from one corner of my island to the other, dug some holes, and then quit. I couldn't find a game in it, so I'm not sure what the point was.

The version people apparently pay for, where you have health, monsters trying to kill you, and can build tools, looks far more interesting.

[jamesk]

I've never played the free version, I just flat out bought it. It's a great game when you feel like exploring, building tunnels, huge fortresses or pssssssssssssst BOOM!

[Lord Thag]

I have to chime in on this again. Zylon, dude, I owe you one. I have played this game more than any PC game in ... like two decades.

I have a fortress that spans an entire mountain range. It has a natural cave system underneath so large that I still haven't found the end of it after months of exploring. I've sailed for hours across the world (which can be, by the way eight times the actual size of PLANET EARTH o_O by the way). Nothing can touch this game once you catch the bug. It's genius. You can build whatever you want. Hell, there is even a way to put these redstone wires down that act as circuitry so you can make all kinds of crazy things like moving labyriths, doors, traps and (!) computer logic gates.

It's also one of the creepiest games I've ever played. Nothing like skulking around the pitch dark of some cave miles under ground when all of a sudden you hear ... 'SSSSSSSSSSS'.

I'm glad I got in before it gets crazy big. This month is the big update. We get new mobs, and portals to hell!

If it were up to me, I would give this thing PC game of the decade.