Why no contender to the Minecraft throne?
The game has a huge fanbase, i don't play it myself byt my son plays it all the time. With countless CoD clones isn't it odd noone tried to copy Minecraft?
I think a more direct interaction between objects would work even better than the way objects now interact to each other. You have to make most of new stuff on the workbench. A more "Boulder Dashish" way. Realistic flow of water and waterlevels would also be great. And animals that don't just spawn behind your back.
Yeah, Boulder Dash in 3D!
I think a more direct interaction between objects would work even better than the way objects now interact to each other. You have to make most of new stuff on the workbench. A more "Boulder Dashish" way. Realistic flow of water and waterlevels would also be great. And animals that don't just spawn behind your back.
Yeah, Boulder Dash in 3D!
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Not exactly a clone of course... :p
Although this may not be the one I'm thinking of with the above statement, it'll give you an idea of how much these clones "borrow"
Anyway, a quick Google for
minecraft type games
shows lots of similar games, but I can't comment on any of them.
From what i understood is sort of a "lego" game with Doom kind of graphics that for some reason people enjoy playing in 2012...
Am I close?
Yes, at least as far as I understand it. You can basically build anything in an infinite area (at least it's infinite insofar as most people would bother exploring it), but you have to find/manufacture certain types of block, and if you play the 'survival' (or whatever it's called) mode, then at night creatures come out to hunt for you, so you have to have built a safe dwelling during the day.
Anyone who's played the game for more than five minutes, or who's played anything later than the beta I tried, can no doubt add much more to the above description, but I will add that to me these games, and the Lego builder games, are no fun as the thing about Lego in real life is that it's tactile, you touch it, and building Lego blocks (or equivalent) on-screen is no fun at all, to me.
I'm not talking about the Lego Batman, Lego Harry Potter, etc, games, as they are action games, not building games.
Isn't infiniminer the game that minecraft is based on?
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
yeah he even complained when the official minecraft game came on the arcade saying it wasn't as good as his version.
as for large companies doing it, i assume they dont want to be seen as ripping off a small popular software firm.
Correct
And that was the point you were making i see :oops:
Can't be missing much I guess.
Well, I do remember someone made a comment here about how someone had made a Z80 "emulator" (or something similar) in Minecraft, which sounded impressive, I guess.
Soooo ... Does that indicate the potential for a Speccy emu in Minecraft? ( :razz: )
I think the "something similar" was a 16-bit register. Not having done computer science in 20-odd years it's probably as close to a Speccy emulator as I'm ever gonna know what the hell
I'm talking about.
And you can explore the lands that are created and find hidden treasure and mine into dungeons filled with rare minerals to let you build even more things!
At night, all the monsters appear outside too and try to hunt you down, so you need to build a shelter to hide from them until morning or get a sword or bow and arrow and kill them!
And you can build minecart rides!! And saddle a pig! And grow crops...and make intricate mechanisms to open a door....or visit another dimension full of lava and more horrible beasties!!!
Go on...give it a bash and keep your inner 7 year old happy! :D
Oh, and that guy who ripped off Minecraft with the XBL Indie game made more than just a small fortune! He's now a millionaire!!!
One major criticism is that there's as much "work" as play because you have to dig mines and chop down trees. All that's true but it just makes the construction side of things more satisfying and adds to the survival aspect. And if you want to just build there's a construction-only mode on the PC version.
Another criticism was that, like Colony, there was no real point to the game beyond what goals the player set themselves. This has been rectified and there's an in-game quest that involves finding a stronghold, activating a portal in it, reaching a dimension called "The end" and defeating a final boss. As with all good sandbox games whether the player decides to follow the main quest is entirely up to them.
Oh, and there's absolutely no narrative at all, a plus in my book. ;)
This was brought to the xbox360 version too in a title update.
Absolutely! This is one of the countless paths where modern games gone wrong. A book should be a book, a movie a movie and a game a game!