Of course the first enemy he adds are Goddamned Bats. They're already annoying.
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Notch (Mojang, Minecraft) creates a new game live - Weekend Fun!
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Uniracers said:
I want to say that it would have been deleted when he deleted his stream and since he deleted it while he was streaming it'd be impossible to recover, but I don't have an intimate knowledge with the livestream website so I can't say for sure, that's just my hunch.
Sorry
It's a bit obvious that he's rewriting some of the Minecraft logic verbatim.
In the video list, there seem to be videos from earlier on. Not sure if they reach back to the beginning.
http://no.twitch.tv/realnotchUniracers said:
In the video list, there seem to be videos from earlier on. Not sure if they reach back to the beginning.
this is a 2D trick ala Doom. Minecraft is absolutely differently made. I think it's because of Notch's artstyle, more like, that the games even have anything alike.Utako said:It's a bit obvious that he's rewriting some of the Minecraft logic verbatim.
http://no.twitch.tv/realnotch
In the video list, there seem to be videos from earlier on. Not sure if they reach back to the beginning.
But I do see where you are coming from. I guess he's using what he knows for the best.
StickSoldier
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Carl said:
I bet the majority of people watching his stream have been inspired to try and design their own game in Eclipse. I've already downloaded that and paint.net lol.
bengraven said:
I believe that's how many people have viewed his channel. The symbol of a person is how many people are watching. It's averaging around 10-11k users.
Nah about 11k are watching right now the other number is the total ammount of hits on the page.bengraven said:
I've watched quite a bit of this and I messed around with Java before but Notch's speed is incredible. Sometimes he pauses for like 2 seconds to write yet another line of code. If I would hit a wall during coding it would take me at least 2 hours to get back on track again lol.
StickSoldier
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SappYoda said:I wonder how is he going to do the music/sound effects. If he intends to add audio that is
I'm sure he is if he has time available. Does anyone know how many hours he has left?
It really is hypnotic to watch notch code. I know that this may not be the right place to ask this, but where would someone start off, if they're interested in programming? There seems to be so many different languages, that it's a little dizzying to focus on where to start. Plus any sites/books that are really good for beginners would be fantastic!
Ludum Dare 21 Compo ends in 6 hours, 55 minutes, 59 secondsStickSoldier said:
Ludum Dare 21 Jam ends in 1 day, 6 hours, 55 minutes, 59 seconds
From http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ - I don't know if he's in the jam or competition.
EDIT: In fact there's no mention of "Notch", "Mojang" or his name on the list of current entries.
SappYoda
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StickSoldier said:
About 7 hours.
You can check it here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/
cremebox said:
Get a book like the Dummies Guide to C++ and plough through it from start to finish. Java, C++ and C# are some of the main languages used these days and they're structurally similar enough that if you learn one of them to a high enough level, you can adapt to another very easily given a couple of days.
If you're a total beginner and want to try making games specifically, look into playing with and going through online tutorials with something like Construct or Flixel and see where you go from there. If you really get into it with their BASIC-like languages, you can progress into something more involved like the above. There's more than one way to do this though.
Diprosalic
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does he not talk?
Man, this looks pretty neat. As someone who's learning how to program and would like to eventually do things like this, my favorite part was actually seeing the art/sound. For some reason, I always worried about having to get people to do my art and sound, but the simple pixel art and that little sound maker seem to do the job just fine. (for a little game like this)
GazzaScotland
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AcciDante said:
I know the feeling, they way I always work is getting the basic programmer art done so I can at least get the game working. Then its much easier to get people to help with art/sound as they can see it taking shape.
I was thinking that too.Blizzard said:It looks like he just did a runthrough of the entire game, or almost the entire thing before he had to restart due to changing something or fixing a sound effect.
It almost looks like a first-person Link's Awakening dungeon game.
GazzaScotland
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Blizzard said:It looks like he just did a runthrough of the entire game, or almost the entire thing before he had to restart due to changing something or fixing a sound effect.
It almost looks like a first-person Link's Awakening dungeon game.
Before he started the actual coding yesterday an was still tossing about ideas he mentioned how we had been replaying that a lot recently, so there is some connection.
close to the edge
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Yeah, I've worried about that as well (more about the art because I can't draw for shit) but the pixel art seems to work fine. Seeing him program is very impressive, he's extremely fast and everything works almost instantly. That Eclipse Hot Code Replace thing looks sexy too, I wish VS 2010 had that.AcciDante said:
close to the edge said:
Yeah the hot code replace thing is amazing.
This is really good inspiration for me to want to start trying to program again x_x
I've gone through the basics a billion times and even took a data structures course at my college but my biggest problem is not committing to whatever I'm working on. I give up after a couple days or so, lol.
edit: also he was watching the 100% quake done quickest speedrun while he was eating, I feel like he may have drawn some inspiration from that as well
close to the edge
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Yeah, it's hard to stay committed when you're the only one doing a project. You can try smaller stuff at first like some of the easier Project Euler problems and then move to bigger stuff. I did a bunch of those last summer and it's pretty fun and rewarding.Acullis said:
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
I've hopped in and out of that stream all weekend watching an hour here and there and now he's nearly done I gotta say I'm incredibly impressed.
He's actually given me a greater confidence in my own programming in general, but certainly has highlighted the one thing he "has" that I don't is an absolute ability to just focus and do, rather than procrastinate, in fact I'm in awe, period.
He's actually given me a greater confidence in my own programming in general, but certainly has highlighted the one thing he "has" that I don't is an absolute ability to just focus and do, rather than procrastinate, in fact I'm in awe, period.