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

http://gun.io/blog/notchs-new-game-minicraft-source-code-and-android-port/

by Mizza • 15 years ago

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Mizza• 15 years ago

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• 15 years ago

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

sp3323• 15 years ago

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.

eropple2• 15 years ago

Last I heard at least, he still seem to regard mods to Minecraft as some bad terrible thing (though apparently Jeb has at least gotten him to go along with a mod framework--which is a good thing, because it's the only way Minecraft remains playable!), so "I doubt he'll complain" might be reaching a bit.

icebraining2• 15 years ago

There's not might - without a license, even the Github mirror made by Rich is infringing.

joakime• 15 years ago

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.

icebraining2• 15 years ago

There's not much to interpret: not under any license means the default copyright terms apply - meaning any distribution is forbidden.

mrspeaker• 15 years ago

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• 15 years ago

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

jasonlotito• 15 years ago

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

dminor2• 15 years ago

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• 15 years ago

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.

SquareWheel• 15 years ago

It's true, I was amazed at how fast he worked. A bit of programmer envy from me.

dminor2• 15 years ago

Entertaining, definitely. Notch has been making games for years, so he's drawing on a lot of experience.

ronnier2• 15 years ago

I love how he uses the most uncool tools out there. Eclipse, Java, Pain.net, Windows, yet produces more than most of us combined.

eropple2• 15 years ago

The flip side to this is that his projects tend to accrete bad design decisions and just outright bugs that a more methodical developer wouldn't. Minecraft multiplayer comes to mind.

fiblye• 15 years ago

I'd imagine the pressure of having hundreds of people watching would keep him in check. It's pretty unlikely he'd stream himself doing some casual browsing with a sandwich in hand.

TheRevoltingX• 15 years ago

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.

joelackner• 15 years ago

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

hovvit• 15 years ago

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.

andrewcanis2• 15 years ago

Try this version on github, you can compile and run the source with 'ant run': https://github.com/skeeto/Minicraft

eru• 15 years ago

I hope you two will have some fun browsing the code and just messing around. Might be a well-motivated introduction to programming.

samfoo• 15 years ago

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)

hackermom• 15 years ago

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

newobj• 15 years ago

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

libraryatnight• 15 years ago

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.

andrewcanis2• 15 years ago

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/

chrislott• 15 years ago

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

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

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

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