Interesting arguments going on...Maybe Notch is going to work on Scrolls, or maybe he'll continue working on Minecraft. I find it likely that he may work on both-just with Jeb and the AI guy on Minecraft full-time.
But that's me speculating, no evidence for that.
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With the release of my new adventure map, I am officially back. Now to head back to DragCave!
Im surprised you care about him! Your always pointing out his flaws like an asshole, in which every human has.
I think he's lazy and the epitome of wasted talent and fortune.
I also think he's done some good things for the game, probably more than Jeb, and it's not like him to just dump it.
*Starts pseudo-cult conspiracy saying Notch is working secretly and using jeb_ as an actually useless face of the game*
This was the best part of the thread, made me giggle a bit.
As far as the thread is concerned I'm sure Notch will be in and out of Minecraft's post release development just like he was in the prior months. There is no definitive answer unless it came from Notch himself, merely wordplay and speculation. He is going to do as he wants, he'll wake up one day and tweet about some great feature idea he has and all of a sudden he'll be developing on Minecraft again in the future. Notch can be spontaneous like that.
I do favor Jens when it comes to Minecraft development so it's great news to hear he is taking the lead again for awhile.
Yep, ever since Beta came around it's been mostly Jeb anyway.
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Users lack the mental capacity to have intelligent discussion, and mods lack the mental capacity to make intellegent decisions... I give up trying to share my intelligence with the world.
Notch will still be the Minecraft guy :U As stated before, he said he was only taking a break, then he would continue working. If he meant working on something else, Notch still created Minecraft and stll deserves to be worshipped for creating the most beast thing ever.
The bad thing about this is, that Notch's friendly face wont be there, but we now have jeb who is in my opinion a much better coder
Yes Notch was lazy, and left us hanging for a long time, he is the true face of Minecraft, but yeah jeb is much better
Release it under (L)GPL/BSD/$free_licence_here (or just as public domain), create a GitHub/Bitbucket repository (or a SourceForge/Google Code/whatever project), ????, PROFIT.
Since Notch has already mentioned that he'll release the source code when the "sales start dying and a minimum time has passed", why not just do so? Wait a few days/weeks until the press has written and published their articles about the final release, and then just "free" the whole project. We already have mods doing the craziest things (and fixing the craziest bugs), and jeb or whoever would still be able to veto against some vcs commits (might be important, otherwise we'll have Nazis riding on dinosaurs or whatever as a part of the game). Imo, the game/code quality would improve significantly, as 1000 eyes see more than, eh, two? four?
Just my two cents.
Judging from the two separate videos I've seen that include Notch at Minecon saying "Cha-ching!" in response to news of a sale, I think the open release of source code is a ways off yet.
I think there will be independently-developed open source clones in wide use before we see an open release of Minecraft source. They'll release the code as a defensive measure.
Notch's updates have been getting worse and worse, so hopefully Jeb can fix all the bugs and incomplete features. It was getting pretty evident due to the lack of detail and rushed features towards the end. Kinda sad though really, couldn't even make it past 2 years of developement on a game.. would hate to have seen him try a hand at some large game project that takes 5+ years to finish(dwarf fortress, any commercial AAA game, etc).
Excuse me, but I believe I stated that Notch will not necessarily stop working on Minecraft anymore, but the way you make say it, he's dumping the game on Jeb's lap and locking him in a closet for some undisclosed amount of time.
Sure he may not work on it as much as he once did, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'll stop working on it completely. The fact that Jeb is now lead developer does not mean anything really. How about co-developers? Can't Notch be a co-developer? You also cannot possibly predict that there won't be something in the future that might bring Notch back to Minecraft.
And concerning your comment to another person in your same reply, it's hard to see your post as being credible at all when using your own blog as a professional source, even if you are right.
I find it very insensitive that you call people with their own opinions a hoot. I wouldn't call you or the most annoying whiner on the forums anything so rash at all. Be civil and have at least some consideration.
I really hope minecraft development never "ends" There should always be more features that get added, thats one of the things that make mincraft what it is. like new realms and stuff.
There are 3 different categories of game developers.
Starters-
I'm certain notch will still come in every once in a while, but I think that he's one of those people who likes to start something and then let it run it's course.
Shiners-
Jeb is I'm guessing a perfectionist, and notch knew he needed new talent in. The adventure update and the upcoming stuff is obviously him.
What's life?-
Now,... there is only 1 other category, but it only has one man. That man is toady one. FOR THE FORTRESS!
However, I guess now we will have to have two temples in all of our fortresses, one to notch and one to jeb. Notch will be the leader of the pantheon however.
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What do you do when your all alone in the woods? Punch trees of course!
im glad, notch lost intrest in minecraft along time ago, and most of us know it. hopefullt jeb will lead us back to the old days. when things got achomplished.
seriesly the last two major updates are the size of things notch would crack out in a few weeks, and they took months.
i see this as a well deserved break for notch. whether it's deserving or not could be up for debate, but it won't be for me. he started this small game that grew into a worldwide favorite of everyone with a computer. just imagine the stress and pressure he was under. take a rest notch, take as many vacations as you want.
I'll miss Notch, but Jeb does great work! Many of the best additions are made by him. Some of them were even better than Notch's ideas (your mileage may vary on this).
And Notch is just taking a vacation, not abandoning MC entirely. He deserves it.
Honestly, I feel all that Mojang still needs to do in Minecraft is fill in some content holes (ex: mod support, Testificate AI) and squash some of the more persistent bugs the game still has. After that, let the modding community have at it, src and all.
Notch IS Minecraft.
He can't leave.
Not forever.
But that's me speculating, no evidence for that.
and good luck Jeb with Minecraft! :biggrin.gif:
I believe in Herobrine 100%
I think he's lazy and the epitome of wasted talent and fortune.
I also think he's done some good things for the game, probably more than Jeb, and it's not like him to just dump it.
This was the best part of the thread, made me giggle a bit.
As far as the thread is concerned I'm sure Notch will be in and out of Minecraft's post release development just like he was in the prior months. There is no definitive answer unless it came from Notch himself, merely wordplay and speculation. He is going to do as he wants, he'll wake up one day and tweet about some great feature idea he has and all of a sudden he'll be developing on Minecraft again in the future. Notch can be spontaneous like that.
I do favor Jens when it comes to Minecraft development so it's great news to hear he is taking the lead again for awhile.
Yep, ever since Beta came around it's been mostly Jeb anyway.
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Yes Notch was lazy, and left us hanging for a long time, he is the true face of Minecraft, but yeah jeb is much better
Judging from the two separate videos I've seen that include Notch at Minecon saying "Cha-ching!" in response to news of a sale, I think the open release of source code is a ways off yet.
I think there will be independently-developed open source clones in wide use before we see an open release of Minecraft source. They'll release the code as a defensive measure.
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Excuse me, but I believe I stated that Notch will not necessarily stop working on Minecraft anymore, but the way you make say it, he's dumping the game on Jeb's lap and locking him in a closet for some undisclosed amount of time.
Sure he may not work on it as much as he once did, but that doesn't necessarily mean he'll stop working on it completely. The fact that Jeb is now lead developer does not mean anything really. How about co-developers? Can't Notch be a co-developer? You also cannot possibly predict that there won't be something in the future that might bring Notch back to Minecraft.
And concerning your comment to another person in your same reply, it's hard to see your post as being credible at all when using your own blog as a professional source, even if you are right.
I find it very insensitive that you call people with their own opinions a hoot. I wouldn't call you or the most annoying whiner on the forums anything so rash at all. Be civil and have at least some consideration.
Starters-
I'm certain notch will still come in every once in a while, but I think that he's one of those people who likes to start something and then let it run it's course.
Shiners-
Jeb is I'm guessing a perfectionist, and notch knew he needed new talent in. The adventure update and the upcoming stuff is obviously him.
What's life?-
Now,... there is only 1 other category, but it only has one man. That man is toady one. FOR THE FORTRESS!
However, I guess now we will have to have two temples in all of our fortresses, one to notch and one to jeb. Notch will be the leader of the pantheon however.
seriesly the last two major updates are the size of things notch would crack out in a few weeks, and they took months.
i see this as a well deserved break for notch. whether it's deserving or not could be up for debate, but it won't be for me. he started this small game that grew into a worldwide favorite of everyone with a computer. just imagine the stress and pressure he was under. take a rest notch, take as many vacations as you want.
And Notch is just taking a vacation, not abandoning MC entirely. He deserves it.
-Nicolas Negroponte