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[Kitteh6660]

Windows RT is a version of Windows 8 for tablets with ARM processors.

There is Store for Windows 8 and RT.

Minecraft could be priced at $19.99 in Windows store, compared to the cost of $26.99 for premium. Of course, you could download texture packs for Minecraft in Windows RT.

7 days trial would be available as well.

One problem is mods. Official mod support will have to wait.

[Laughing_Man16]

So. You're proposing that Mojang package a version of minecraft for a tablet version of windows 8, sell it for lower than the actual price of the game, through a third party store, which I am sure will take a cut of that money and allow a free trial?

I don't think so.

[Cam327]

No. I believe Minecraft already has support for touchscreen laptops. If it didn't then that would be the only thing to change. Windows RT and Windows 8 can both run Minecraft just as well as Windows 7.

[nivram]

Notch wants nothing to do with Windows 8 and Microsoft.

Marv

[Event_Horizon]

nivram, on 07 January 2013 - 04:20 PM, said:

Notch wants nothing to do with Windows 8 and Microsoft.

Marv

This. It's on his blog and Twitter. I can't find the links atm but I'm sure someone will.

[Sambaru]

Notch said this won't happen.

[Ep1c_FRizZy]

nivram, on 07 January 2013 - 04:20 PM, said:

Notch wants nothing to do with Windows 8 and Microsoft.

Marv

Well, Minecraft is on XBox 360, which is a Microsoft product. Therefore, you are wrong.

[LightningSFX]

Instead of making a new Minecraft..."Tablet Edition", couldn't mojang just make a free app where you login to your account to play, just like on PC?

[FnordianLoopRespawn]

Kitteh6660, on 07 January 2013 - 04:19 AM, said:

Windows RT is a version of Windows 8 for tablets with ARM processors.

There is Store for Windows 8 and RT.

Minecraft could be priced at $19.99 in Windows store, compared to the cost of $26.99 for premium. Of course, you could download texture packs for Minecraft in Windows RT.

7 days trial would be available as well.

One problem is mods. Official mod support will have to wait.

suggestions belong in the suggestion subforum.

nivram, on 07 January 2013 - 04:20 PM, said:

Notch wants nothing to do with Windows 8 and Microsoft.

Marv

Correct, Notch.. well Mojang and therefor Jeb... will not be making a Win8 specific app, there's really no need to as the PC version runs fine (with a bit of fiddling) on Win8.

[LightningSFX]

Cam327, on 07 January 2013 - 12:55 PM, said:

Windows RT and Windows 8 can both run Minecraft just as well as Windows 7.

Research before you speak. Windows 8 can run Minecraft just like Windows 7 can, but FYI Windows RT can't.

LightningSFX, on 08 February 2013 - 03:46 AM, said:

Instead of making a new Minecraft..."Tablet Edition", couldn't mojang just make a free app where you login to your account to play, just like on PC?

Also, technically since it's a free app Microsoft can't really take any profits from it.

[rommac100]

Actually you can run minecraft on rt you just have to jailbreak it and then get ikvm java and run the the jar thru cmd or convert it to .exe. But you need to make minecraft run not on openGl but good luck to that. Because when you run it after installing everything you get white screen at the main menu.

[TableCraft0R]

http://forum.xda-dev...125&postcount=4
and rename minecraft launcher to .jar

[MrQuizzles]

Cam327, on 07 January 2013 - 12:55 PM, said:

No. I believe Minecraft already has support for touchscreen laptops. If it didn't then that would be the only thing to change.

I've got a Surface Pro, and I can tell you that enabling the "Touchscreen Mode" option does absolutely nothing. The game is 100% unplayable using the touchscreen. Ditto using the wacom pen.

The way Minecraft does turning is interesting. Every frame, it seems to reset the position of the mouse to center and then calculate how much it had to move it to get there. Based on that, the game then tilts the camera and turns your character.

The way the pen works is, when you hover it over the screen, it places the cursor beneath the pen. So each frame, Minecraft says "get back to the middle" and then turns, but the pen says "the cursor is here", so you end up turning extremely rapidly based on how far from the center of the screen the pen is being held.

The way touch works is it merely positions the cursor at where you touched it and registers a left click. So you touch the screen, break a block, Minecraft resets the cursor to the middle and tilts the camera/turns your character some amount proportional to how far from center your touch was.

It's just awful.

[zack6849]

Ep1c_FRizZy, on 20 January 2013 - 07:01 AM, said:

Well, Minecraft is on XBox 360, which is a Microsoft product. Therefore, you are wrong.

minecraft is on xbox 360, however it isn't maintained by mojang, its maintained by 4j studios.
Marv said that NOTCH wanted nothing to do with windows 8 or Microsoft, 4j studios has nothing to do with notch or mojang, therefore, you're wrong.

[MrQuizzles]

zack6849, on 23 April 2013 - 01:15 PM, said:

4j studios has nothing to do with notch or mojang, therefore, you're wrong.

If 4j studios is, with permission from Mojang, developing and maintaining the XBox version of a Mojang game, then they do have something to do with Mojang.