It's about time I posted this here I think - Minecraft has become an extremely popular game recently (the creator, Notch, got invited to Valve recently - apparently they like to play Minecraft in their offices). I believe Notch just reached 500,000 registered users.
If you haven't played it then give it a try - you do have to buy the current version, but it's cheap and definately worth the money in my opinion. You can try a free version if you can't decide whether you want to buy it or not.
I'll leave a couple of videos to explain the game.
The reason I posted this here is because DC resident Hempuli got a mention from Notch on Twitter about a game he made in MMF2 - which I thought was pretty impressive
I still haven't bought it yet but I will when I have $13 to spend. I just bought Starcraft 2 and being I'm still not allowed to go back to work because of my broken wrist, I have to be real careful with my money. Looks like Minecraft has come a very long way from back when me and my friends all just went in and did random sculptures. That was long before any real game-play was added. It's pretty exciting to see how far it's come. Thanks.
yeah I did all of it by hand. Each world is randomly generated so it's loads of fun. You also have to survive by making shelters, finding food, and not dying from monsters at night. I've wasted so many hours as you can tell from the man made structures. Cant stop playing it. It's so fun
It gets boring when you play the free version, since all you can do is build. There's no survival which is the fun part
I've been reading tons about this game lately and it looks absolutely absorbing! The only reason i've not bought this is i don't have the time to freely spend on it, and i want to make sure i keep my job by coming into work on time every day!
I hear the maker is doing very well for himself since it took off - hats off to him!
Originally Posted by OldManClayton Did you do all that by hand? That's insane!
It looks interesting but wouldn't hold my interest when I tried it, unfortunately. Perhaps I ought to give it another go.
I was the same until I found out how to actually craft stuff. The idea is that you need to find materials straight away so that you can build a small shelter to survive the first night, then you can build on from there and eventually get to the stage where you have a huge base with mob traps and contraptions. It's a weirdly simple yet complex game in so many ways.
The best thing is that Notch is regularly updating - he usually updates a few times a week, and always releases a "surprise" update on Friday (which basically adds features which we have to find for ourselves). For example, this week he added a compass item which lets you find your way back to the re-spawn area.
ive been hearing a lot about minecraft recently. from random places on the internet, to mainstream gaming podcasts, and have heard nothing but good things. it sounds like a lot of fun, and has a lot of potential as a full blown commercial game.
one question... iirc it was originally going to have multiplayer support? does it have that yet? if not, is it still expected?
It has free world multiplayer support on the minecraft.net website where people host their own servers. At the moment Notch has an early build of the Alpha multiplayer support (survival one).
I decided to create a new better world than the previous one a few posts up It'll be sweet. Oh and I changed my player's skin to resemble Ezio Auditore from Assassin's Creed
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So fun. I'm gonna upload some pictures of my "base"
