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Notch's '0x10c' officially dead, but its gameplay could live on
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Deleted member 22576
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That a shame, this game sounded really cool and interesting.
Sorcerer Supreme
Member
One-hit wonder.
That was one hell of a hit though.
RockTurtle
Member
whats the with the name of the game? hidden meaning?
He'll never be able to top Minecraft, but that doesn't mean he can't try to make smaller indie games. Besides, the Minecraft money is gonna be rolling in for a long time. If he ever runs out of money he could always announce Minecraft 2.
How is Scrolls doing? At least he hasn't abandoned that.
How is Scrolls doing? At least he hasn't abandoned that.
Middle section in the OP.
Sorcerer Supreme
Member
I'm sad to hear that, since it was a neat idea, but not one that Notch seemed to ever find workable gameplay for.
I do hope Notch finds something to motivate him, since at one point he said he knew he wouldn't match Minecraft's success again, so he could just experiment with whatever seemed interesting. I think he's been experimenting with Unity lately, but mostly I hope he finds something that makes him want to program again.
I do hope Notch finds something to motivate him, since at one point he said he knew he wouldn't match Minecraft's success again, so he could just experiment with whatever seemed interesting. I think he's been experimenting with Unity lately, but mostly I hope he finds something that makes him want to program again.
PhoenixDawn
Member
Shame, the concept sounded pretty interesting from what I read while following it. The pressure to make a game that would live up to Minecraft probably has weighed Notch down a lot. Plus, he has the money to life off of forever, so he probably doesn't feel obligated to release anything unless it lives up to his standards.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
Bingo.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Doesn't come as much of a surprise, it never really seemed like he knew where he wanted to go with it.
Was it even that? Seems like he his some sort of writers block that was insurmountable or this could have just been a case of Molyhype.
graywolf323
Member
too bad, I'm not a fan of Minecraft but this 0x10c sounded really interesting
Even than it's not that good of a game. Still thankful since it brought us Terraria and soon Starbound.
Lasthope106
Member
I don't think Notch will ever do another good game. Minecraft was his masterpiece. He can try, but all the other stuff won't ever be a smashing success.
shakin_haitian
Banned
He was a guy who created a simple lego/crafting game. I don't understand what people were expecting.
childplease
Banned
Pretty much.
MvmntInGrn
Member
The user-end might be simple but I doubt it was all that simple to create.
I stopped playing Minecraft about the time the otherworld thing was announced but man has it become popular to hate.
Pretty much. It was the mods that made Minecraft somewhat worth playing.
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Deleted member 80556
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Man, what a shame, I loved the premise of the game. Wonder what he's working on now.
Well as time went on they began to add a bunch of dumb or unneccesary features like the villages and "The End". I stopped playing a while ago so I don't know if those were ever fleshed out but it seemed like they just kept adding on random stuff and seeing what sticks. Minecraft is still a brilliant game, but I wonder how much of that brilliance was on accident. I hear Scrolls is good so they've got some skill in game design.
Coffee Dog
Banned
Yeah. Minecraft became popular for a variety of reasons, very few of them could be replicated.
soxinthebox
Member
Whatever he creates shouldn't have to out-sell it's predecessor to justify it's existence. Shame he couldn't find an interesting way to do this concept justice.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
He should just give all the code he has for it to the community and see what they come up with. I didn't really care for the gameplay he showed off but I loved the art style and was still impressed that it was done in Java. Put all the code online somewhere, maybe Github or something, and let people turn it into something themselves. I mean look at DOOM and Quake ever since their sourcecodes were released. Never underestimate the power of a determined fanbase.
Sanic
Member
Notch already did that ;p
legacyzero
Banned
I fucking knew it.
Dammit, Notch. How can you take a perfectly good concept and toss it like that?
Dammit, Notch. How can you take a perfectly good concept and toss it like that?
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
The whole programming your ship thing sounded really great. I hope a mechanic like that makes it into a game sooner or later.
The drive to create must be kind of hard to find when you're swimming in stacks of cash and swedish supermodels
The drive to create must be kind of hard to find when you're swimming in stacks of cash and swedish supermodels
Aw that sucks. It did seem too big for him to complete. After minecraft it seemed like he wanted to do an equally big and ground breaking game that could top its success, and why not? He had all the money and time in the world to do it but that's a recipe for disaster. Hopefully the fan effort can translate the basic concepts into a fun game.
The core of the game was the programmable computer idea. You can program the computer to do whatever in your spaceship. Make a clock, code and play original games, setup your own security system for accessing the computer etc. Whatever a real computer could do. The computer works in conjunction with all of the on board spaceship electronics so you can control the thrusters, air supply, guns, communication etc. With these tools you go around the universe to scavenge more parts to upgrade your ship and computer so you can do more. While adventuring there are other human players doing the exact same thing, so you can fight to see who's setup is better, hack/get hacked, or maybe work together, trade, whatever. This is fucking ambitious and I'd love to play it someday.
Hopefully more developers are inspired by this stylized low poly low res texture look. It looks great.
And good luck to Notch in whatever he does next.
The core of the game was the programmable computer idea. You can program the computer to do whatever in your spaceship. Make a clock, code and play original games, setup your own security system for accessing the computer etc. Whatever a real computer could do. The computer works in conjunction with all of the on board spaceship electronics so you can control the thrusters, air supply, guns, communication etc. With these tools you go around the universe to scavenge more parts to upgrade your ship and computer so you can do more. While adventuring there are other human players doing the exact same thing, so you can fight to see who's setup is better, hack/get hacked, or maybe work together, trade, whatever. This is fucking ambitious and I'd love to play it someday.
Hopefully more developers are inspired by this stylized low poly low res texture look. It looks great.
And good luck to Notch in whatever he does next.