I've never seen any posts about minecraft on TL before, so I assume not many of you know about it.
Minecraft is a fantastic sandbox / creative indie game, where the only aim is to survive and build stuff. You begin with nothing, and you have to collect or craft different building materials to create your own little world.
The game renders itself as you explore, so the size of your map is literally infinite. Monsters spawn in the dark, so at night you have to take shelter or risk losing all of your possessions. At the same time, the best materials have to be mined from caves, deep underground, so you have to be adventurous and take risk in order to acquire these.
The game costs about US$10, and is well worth it. If you want to try it, there is an alpha creative mode which only requires sign-up. For survival mode, you need to buy the full game.
Looks like it's coming along nicely. I remember having a server set up a year or more back (I hardly remember now) it was pretty amusing even when it was just building with blocks.
On July 31 2010 00:59 Inschato wrote: Looks like it's coming along nicely. I remember having a server set up a year or more back (I hardly remember now) it was pretty amusing even when it was just building with blocks.
yep, and survival multiplayer is scheduled to be released some time within the next week ^^ It will be great having other players to work with
On July 31 2010 01:34 Bibdy wrote: Those islands, archipelagos and such are neat, but how's the gameplay?
like leggo on crack... but with pigs and skeletons
but seriously, no video or screenshot can do this game justice. To understand what fun minecraft is, you have start playing, and get creative. You essentially build your own fun.
Here is a gallery of stuff people have made in-game.
that gallery requires some explanation, though. there's basically two game modes: creative mode, where you see crazy things like giant snowmen and marios, and explore / mining mode, where your world is a more natural one, and you have to mine the materials and craft the tools necessary to build things. the creative mode is freely available for anyone to try, and has multiplayer, but you must purchase the game to play the mining mode.
personally, the creative mode became boring fairly quickly. the infinitely generated mining maps are a lot more fun. and the game's creator is implementing multiplayer for the mining mode, which will be awesome.
the video bdidy posted, with cool shit like flowing water, is from the mining mode version. water behaves much differently (read: destructively) in the creative mode.
No, it's not like zelda at all. But I can see how you might leap to that conclusion by looking at 1 screen shot and not reading any of the posts in this thread.
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