Notch's New Game - Minicraft (And An Android Port)

[mrspeaker]

The livestream was awesome again too - it's up here: http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/302823358

Though I made the dreadful mistake of watching it with comments on: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/12/20/troll-at-notch/

[swah]

Now I understand how '10x more productive programmer' works.

[jasonlotito]

Oh, thanks for the links to your post. Interesting read. =)

[dminor]

I've been working on an Android game that I envision as a mashup of Zelda and Minecraft, so it's pretty entertaining to see Notch whip out a pretty similar idea over a single weekend.

[jiggy2011]

Entertaining or frustrating? The guy is a machine, I watched his stream (not the whole thing but a few minutes here and there) and he was almost never not typing (or editing something in paint.net).

How he maintains his focus for that long and doesn't get stumped by bugs for any great length of time is truly impressive.

[TheRevoltingX]

Me too, I'm working on a 2D MMO for Android: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com

And it's a real treat to see a 2D game like it being made. Not to say other participants didn't have cool looking 2d games.

[andrewcanis]

It's actually very easy to hack the code. I've created a "God-mode" version that you can play on github: http://acanis.github.com/Minicraft-God-Mode/

[Mizza]

There's already a little community forming around the game, which is neat. They've got a wiki: http://minicraft.wikia.com/wiki/Minicraft_Wiki

[tibbon]

What's the license on Minicraft? Or in spite of particular license, is Notch pretty much giving the thumbs up on porting anyway?

[joakime]

Notch has stated it's not released under any license.

https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/149273594667606017

Interpret that as you wish, but make no assumptions.

[sp332]

I think it's still "All rights reserved". The rules for Ludum Dare say that you have to submit the code for judging, but you don't give up copyright. And he didn't put any license in the source archive. Although I doubt he'll complain, this porting effort might violate his copyright.

[chrislott]

I made a working android port. video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9UylEe04Rw

Link on github: http://github.com/chrislott/

[joelackner]

i'm not a programmer. how do i build his source in eclipse? the closest i get is this and i'm stumped: http://i41.tinypic.com/opxrna.png

[samfoo]

I don't know how to configure eclipse to build this, but I spent a few minutes and made an ant script. Save [it](https://gist.github.com/1dd9bd89748f489f67c9) as `build.xml` in root directory of the project and run `$ ant jar`. This will produce `minicraft.jar` which you can execute by running `$ java -jar minicraft.jar`.

(Details: The reason eclipse is complaining is because the images weren't included as resources in the classpath. This cause a null pointer exception when the game attempts to load it's sprites. I don't really use eclipse, so I'm not sure how to fix it)

[hovvit]

That happened to me as well (also not a programmer). It is because the directory with the sounds and images, called 'res', is not in the right place. You need to move the 'res' folder into the 'bin' folder.

[hackermom]

When I see this I don't think of Minecraft, I think of Realm of the Mad God - http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/

[newobj]

Which came out of another game programming competition, "Assemblee 2" : http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=38.0

[libraryatnight]

That game is a lot of fun, I usually use it to waste time while when I'm waiting for my fiance to finish getting ready.