This week, David & Toby cover a range of topics, from Notch's recent BAFTA Award announcement, a look at the new split-screen gameplay feature of the XBLA Minecraft port news on this week's snapshot, and a sneak peek at an interview with Jens "Jeb" Bergensten, with special focus on modding for Minecraft - take a look!
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Notch Revisits Piracy
Not long ago, Notch had a chat with Chris Hecker (of Maxis fame) at the recent GDC regarding the sensitive, ongoing issue of software piracy. While his quote is often mis-attributed ("If someone copies your game a trillion times, you won’t have a single lost cent”); the message seemed less about legitimizing piracy, and more about sending a message that worse things exist in the industry - and that pirated copies of the game could easily become bought ones, if the potential future customer were treated right. He went on to say that he "still think[s] piracy is wrong, but it's the level of wrong...me calling my friend an idiot. It’s wrong, but it’s such a minor thing. It’s ridiculously small."
He Also Reveals...
In other discussions at GDC, Notch talked with Chris about his thoughts on developing Minecraft, indie titles in general, and the curiously unanswered mystery of why no females appear to exist in the game. Among other things, Notch speculated that "about 62.5 percent" of any given behavior in-game was intentional, the rest being emergent behavior from the code that he wasn't expecting, but liked anyway. Wolves chasing sheep is one example of such a happy accident that ended up becoming an important bit of the setting as time went on.
He speculated that one of Minecraft's strongest suits is its lack of proper tutorials or official instructions in-game, as it always encouraged players to interact with each-other to exchange crafting tips and secrets. He was especially thrilled at how players became dependent on one another for the information, and it developed a culture of its own - a culture of crafting. Of course, despite all the unearthed crafting secrets, apparently one still remains; regarding a secret recipe, he said "there is one [recipe] people haven't found yet."
From there, he was curiously silent about what it could be. Can you discover it?
Most importantly everybody knows that April fools is right around the corner.
Lots of game developers would like to give false information about the game, just weeks before the day of April fools, to get the community excited.
After that they will slap you in the face saying it is just an April fools joke.. HAHAHA
In the crafting table put zombie meat in all nine blocks like you would to make an iron/diamond/etc block and you get a meat block.
Stack two meat blocks on top of eachother and put a pumpkin on top and a Herobrine spawns!!
NAILED IT!
DOESN'T ANYONE REALIZE THAT THIS IS OVER?!?!?!
The secret was that Minecraft, every 10,000 launch, would spell Minceraft, rather then Minecraft.
OHAI,BAI
It's the code for his ears.
TRYED IT. Really sucks.
but it's march...
If you're elderly and can't see well, I'll put this nice and big so you guys can read:
The secret is that there is a one in 10000 chance that when you start up Minecraft, you will get this picture:
If you still can't tell, it's that it says "MINCERAFT" instead of "MINECRAFT."
Some people are just too stupid to look at these things.
It has been confirmed by notch himself.
Minceraft
You see it? MINCE - RAFT
yeah, 1 in 10000 chance that goes in the title
It's hidden within the coding, They were smart and didn't add a new picture.... Geniuses I say..