During the weekend, Notch was hard at work producing "Minicraft" for the Ludum Dare contest, and the end-result is a fascinating one, to say the least. Pulling elements (yet not the entirety) from Minecraft, this top-down Zelda-esque game contains a lot of familiar themes: mine materials, craft new and better items, slay monsters. It is, in this respect, where the two games diverge a bit, thematically. Building homes isn't an option, in the conventional sense; while you could push together a number of workbenches to achieve that affect, it serves little purpose to do so. No, the goal of the game is simultaneously much simpler than that, and much harder to accomplish: Kill the only other sentient person in existence, so you can be alone, forever.
Once the game starts, you begin with a bare handful of equipment (not including the classic pick), and must gather materials to create workbenches, anvils, tools and more, all the while exploring a large, diverse environment. As your equipment improves and you explore more of the world, it all culminates into your sole objective (kill the Air Wizard) - at which point, you are victorious, if not endangered.
One thing quickly becomes apparent; what sounds like a childishly simple task reveals a startling level of depth and complexity, especially for a game developed in approximately two days.
Aside from the eerie theme, the game could be said to draw from Minecraft, rather than be a 2D port of it. While certain aspects of the game are shared between the two (mining, crafting items), the driving goals of the game are wildly divergent. Stacking up against 700 other competitors, time will tell how Minicraft fares - you can play it right here.
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I just tryed it, not that hard to start out... HOLY S*** THAT'S A LOT OF MONSTERS!!!!
Try a gem pick.
Also, those are the wrong stairs.
it reminds me of the old gameboy games i grew up on :3
Then I farmed flowers and used flowers to carpet my "house".
To farm flowers, btw, you must first find a patch of flowers. Destroy them all (one click) and it will either give you one or two flowers, usually two. In this way, you have an infinite amount of flowers.
Btw, anyone know what the cloth is for?
It would be fun to host servers with this xD then you and your buddies could conquer the land >:3 of course, you'd need a savegame and a multiplayer feature. As well as custom skins or skin options, as well as some sort of registration.
It should be downloadable, and we'd all have to mod that. xD
This thing is addicting. Seriously.
I got REALLY far in too lol
Anyways, My score was 9687.
I drown after 50 minutes.
btw, Where do you find a friggin cave?