800 Days of Minecraft, in 8 Minutes

By Sacheverell Mar 15, 2013
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Sometimes, it is hard to understand a game's development process. How does a programmer succinctly explain how things are added, removed, changed, improved? Here is one way of going about it!

So, what are you looking at here? Each dot represents a unique file, and its color represents a different file type. Links between files are folders. Whenever someone flies by and "zaps" a file, it means they did something with it in real life. You can see as people work on new features or bugs, as they'll fly past certain files and zap them as they go. Neat!

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Transistor77777
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Posted Mar 15, 2013
was this animation made from scratch or is there some website where you can create one with a file tree or something?

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Posted Mar 15, 2013
It is quite easy to remember WHEN I started. It was just after the February 22nd 2011 quake in Christchurch, so based on this video, I must have joined just after 1.3 was released, or around the 0:45 mark. Kind of scary actually, the time between when I started and when 1.4 "wolf" was released seemed like quite a long time! And back then I would have been considered a late comer!
I remember my first home quite clearly. There was a lava lake near where I spawned, so I decided it would be a good idea to build a house right beside it with wooden floors!

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
Very nice! Love it.

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
How was that animation made? It must have took much research and alot of time to figure who did what and in what order.

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
This is really cool, kind of hard to understand though lol

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
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WOW! That was amazing. I don't know what it was, but it was amazing.

*Facepalm*
Quote from SirCatzOfLol

How was that animation made? It must have took much research and alot of time to figure who did what and in what order.

https://code.google.com/p/gource/

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
That was pretty awesome.

I didn't start playing until Beta 1.8, so around the 2:30 mark.

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
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@1:58 Is when I joined the game, how about all of you?

1:57, in you face! lol

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
Now,what next!

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
This video is already old, 1.5.1 snapshot out! XD jk.

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
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Wow... Didn't realize 1.5 took like half a year

WORDS OF WISDOM!!!

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
this was probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen come off of the front page. It was pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing!

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
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Mojang used a nifty tool called gource. You can read about it in that link. Version control software is a wonderful thing.

Thanks, didn't expect anyone to actually tell me.

On another note are they planning on updating it? It would be neat if they zoomed in on a certain cluster of dots that they were working for that snapshot/ update and explained what they did to each file and what they added. It would make the snapshot edit list look way more appealing to the eyes.

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
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"Nathan, Erik, Nathan and Warren join the project"
Where the splash "Don't bother with the clones!" really came from...

This has to be the most detailed developement video I've seen of any game to date. Great work, Mojang!

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
AWSOME!

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
So pretty....

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Posted Mar 16, 2013
i dont understand and I DONT CARE!!

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Posted Mar 17, 2013
Quote from kude42

Hell yeah it was. I remember everyone building portal frames in preparation... then the world got reset. Oh well.

I remember.... Learning about INVEdit and getting infinite items and such.
And also being extremely impatient for the adventure update. Meh I don't really find updates that exiting anymore.
Anyone remember the lime-colored grass?

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Beta 1.5_01, so around @1:08

Alpha v1.1.2_01 so around some very large negative number.

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Posted Mar 17, 2013
I have to say, whenever there is a new add on-like the add on of a lot of things of one time- i liked the minature explosin

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Posted Mar 17, 2013
LOL, that's pretty cool!

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