Minecraft Gets Honors at GDC

The recent Game Developer's Conference (GDC Online) - hosted in Austin, TX - passed out awards to numerous games for outstanding achievements. Only two games took home more than one award, and Minecraft was one of them! Earning honors for Best Community Relations and Best Live Game, the indie-developed masterpiece definitely stood out among the game crowd!

The GDC Online awards focus primarily on Online titles; with recent contenders representing "a massive range of genres and studios", it's very exciting to see Minecraft continue to make a strong, lasting impression on the gaming industry. With the launch of the game (as well as Minecon) near on the horizon, Mojang's masterpiece creation is set to hit the ground running, already having over 3.5 million copies purchased!

Additionally, Notch has recently commented on the recent changes to the sun and moon for the 1.9 PR4, and is now asking for your feedback! Take this poll to weigh in your opinon: do you want the sun and moon to be square or round?

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
:biggrin.gif: Good for Minecraft!

Although, we all know MC wins, hands down. Everything.

Minecraft wins at everything, it is made of winning.

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Minecraft deserves it.

Also, square sun/moon.

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
MINECRAFT IS THE BEST OF THE BEST!

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
MINECRAFT O YEA!

i say in the spirit of minecraft keep the sun and moon square

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
square sun/moon.Thanks!

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Haha, the poll results are almost always equal.

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Awesome! Well deserved rewards and more recognition for Team Mojang! ヅ
Most texture packs give the user a round sun/moon anyways so why not just make it round? Square sun looks odd with the new lighting system anyhow. ヅ

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
yeah I saw that earlier

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
bring back the square!

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
PLEASE. vote square moon and sun, it is tipical minecraft.
please keep the essence of minecraft

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
The poll should've been hosted on this site rather than one where anybody can impersonate Notch and fool the weak-minded.

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Minecraft!!

SUN/MOON
should be square!

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Go Mojang!
Good job!!!

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
The square is the universal shape of Minecraft. The default sun and moon should always be square. If we want round celestial bodies, we'll download texture packs.

Notch, if you wanna tinker with the sun and moon, make them actually rise in the east.

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Minecraft is masterpiece.

Community is outstanding.

Thanks to Notch for making this "its not even a game " ITS MORE THAN A GAME!." its a lot lot more :).

Minecraft will be always great!

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
congrats mojang how many awards do they have now?

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
i also like how the game is in beta and it has so much rewards

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Yay minecraft and I DEMAND SQUARE SUN AND MOON.

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Best Community Relations?.
But minecraft is full of trolls (including notch lol).

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Posted Oct 13, 2011
Didn't Mythbusters "bust" the "hit the ground running" idiom?

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