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- animatedgif0
It's become pretty fucking boring, haven't played since the wool update. There are only so many empty shell pointless buildings you can make.
Needs to take more hints from Dwarf Fortress
- Aye, a friend and I set up a private server.. got excited.. then realised we couldn't fight each other. What's the point?detritus
- detritus0
heh, I think I'd rather not admit just how much time I've spent in there since I bought it the other week. Suffice to say, I've been doing a lot more of my daily work in the evenings recently.
I think the following page has a good descriptor of what Minecraft is all about.. http://minecraftporn.com/09/what…
It can "best be described as an autism simulator".
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I just can't help but feel it's the shift towards a much deeper (scuse the pun) and long-overdue way of looking at environments in games. These kind of environments are exactly what multi-core processors should be doing with their time - fuck trying to eke every last explosive particle from the graphics processor - spend time instead calculating what knock-on effects happen between different 'pixel' type encounters.
Make the world itself engaging, not the veneer cladding it.
- PIZZA0
"Make the world itself engaging, not the veneer cladding it."
Exactly, see also Dwarf Fortress which although much weaker graphically it also randomly generates a world. Although the Dwarf Fortress world is an entire planet with erosion/rivers/glaciers/mountain... towers/huge caves/lava seas then it plays out a few thousand years of war and history before you even start playing.Ridiculously in depth game, it models an entire world and the 4 seasons (lakes freeze over if the region is cold enough) but then even goes as deep to model how many teeth your dwarf has, what their left sock is made out of and how they feel about their pet cat drowning in the well.
- detritus0
Oh my! How much?
I've been holding off from using mine.
Nnngh.. I now no longer remember why.
Mussst...Not..LogoNNNGHHHHH...
- Stugoo0
sitting in the crowd with minecraft....
for this reason- hahahainvisiblechamber
- haha, it was this and the 16-bit ALU vid that made me finally 'cave in' and buy it. Love his reaction in this.detritus
- bwhahahahahaha!!!WhiteFace
- This was so brilliantPIZZA
- ahh bless himHAYZ1LLA
- hahahahakingsteven
- hahahahahahadMullins
- HAHAelloh
- plash_two0
- Looks fucking awesome poking out in cartographerPIZZA
- haha amazing!Hombre_Lobo_2
- Fabricio0
I am still on the search of a cool multiplayer server... :)
But yeah, I got a bit bored of the single player mode...
- doesnotexist0
ok
- lukus_W0
I've only read about this .. sounds like it's really worth playing. I haven't played computer games seriously since having a Super Nintendo .. maybe I'll give it a go.
- is it a network game?lukus_W
- It has single and multi, multi isn't 100% finished at the moment so features are missing. The game is in Alpha stillPIZZA
- I like the idea of having yr plot and being able to encounter people who have their own empires .. that would be neat.lukus_W
- Maybe in a few months, it's still early days for the online partPIZZA
- fugged0
detrius,
I used a hack to get all the TNT. I just wanted to blow some shit up! So I did.
Now back to building stuff and mining for diamonds...
- what hack!
i love building, but not a fan of mining. might see how fun it is having infinite blocks.Hombre_Lobo_2 - http://www.minecraft…plash_two
- you're going to find a lot of them. i use LOL editor. (pc)plash_two
- what hack!
- i_monk0
I haven't played it and probably won't in its current state. What I'd like to see is a higher resolution of the geometric foundation of the game – break those blocks into smaller shapes, allowing finer detail, curves, and fragmentation – and a huge common world with variable levels of permanence, so you can build your fortress, work with others to build cities, and they're going to stay in place short of all-out war, with fully destructible hinterlands between these designated areas. Also, graphically, this game screams I Should Be Cell-Shaded to me.
- differenz0
Anyone got any cool servers?
- i_monk0
Minecraft (hey remember Minecraft?) now compulsory for 13 year olds at a Swedish school: http://www.gizmag.com/compulsory…
- i_monk0
Cube World wants to be the new Minecraft from the look of it.
- prophet0
seriously i'm almost afraid to try this thing out. i foresee locking myself in a closet with my laptop for days on end. sucking on a minecrack pipe like pooky.