Minicraft is a game made by Markus ‘Notch’ Persson in only 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 22 challenge. You can play it here.
Notch writes: "I basically announced minecraft 2.
I thought that maybe people ACTUALLY do want me to make another game that's super similar to the first one, and I'm loving working on games again.
I don't super duper care exactly which game I make first (or even if I make more), but I do know I'm making one, so I figured I'd absolutely be willing to give it an honest shot in the form of a spiritual successor to minecraft and put up a poll about it."
I'd like to see where this would go, it would be nice if he did something similar and include content we should have had in Minecraft years ago.
At least have it successful enough for Microsoft to get a kick up the backside and let Mojang get serious about it rather than drip feeding such small content.
This the same guy who was indecisive about everything being added to Minecraft and would take years of overthinking to finally implement things into the game. Just something to keep in mind. But his name alone could sell this and even dethrone Minecraft if he plays it right. Just funny how people on Twitter are reacting. Saying MC is better now cause he's not involved, when the complete opposite is true since MS took over.
I think my thought process that anything now would be good to get something in motion even if it turns out to be an overall dud. It's wishful thinking really.
Minecraft could be so much more but Microsoft just don't seem to care as much which is sad. If you want anything now it's always "well there's a mod for that, just download it..." when it should be in the main game. Microsoft don't really bother I feel because there's no direct competition.
Personally there's a fair few things in Terraria that I think Minecraft should adapt, for example doing certain feats to bring in special villagers would be great to make your own village step by step rather than finding and transforming one to your liking. Crafting 25 iron swords would grant you the weapon expert while brewing 30 potions would bring in a herbalist etc.
IMO, since it was just Notch or Him and his small team working on Minecraft before, it was "acceptable" that he took a long time to add things in. But now that Mojang has the resources of Microsoft, it makes no sense at all that they take all year long to add in so little to the game and it took them until recently to realize that the "community votes" thing was a really stupid idea to begin with. It basically just meant that whatever piddly amount of content they made for a new update was going to be even smaller. Perhaps with the threat of a potential MC successor on the way, they'll get their gears greased and do major updates more frequently than some teenager could probably hammer out in a week.
I've always thought of Minecraft as a game that does a lot of things but doesn't put too much depth into em. It leans towards being a light weight RPG but doesn't commit to adding in the mechanics in between that corresponds to the mechanics already implemented. There's a lot to be added to Minecraft that Mojang seems reluctant to.
They have since applied the concept to conventional games. Like dungeons, a Diablo-like game that’s more appropriate to younger kids. The idea is that it is adaptable to other applications including education, which they also sold. Not to mention adding as a first party title for themselves and they needed tax write off. Notch was lucky in a sense. They were able to sell it off as a versatile software with infinite applications rather than a game.
Notch mentioned it would not take away from Minecraft but be a complement. Anti-competitive in the sense of making the pie bigger. I get the feeling Minecraft was just a mesh of something he did not understand, part of it was more political (just pirate my game and pay if you can). He ran an anti-corporation mentality and showing us what a good company does out of goodwill, and it showed when we made him successful. This was, imo, the crux of his success. Only, he sold his company after breaking down from what corporations deal with all the time, insatiable desires of customers (some) and he went on a brief tirade and Microsoft took the momentum and provided him with an out, and he caved to the moment and dumped it. He’s a human being like everyone else. I am interested to learn what he might do but I think without incentive and connection to ordinary life he may find struggles in finding something that appeals to people who have less. Hopefully he finds that zing for the benefit of everyone so we wait and see. I just think Minecraft 2 isn’t the best way to start if it’s a project meant to be independent from it. Should have zero reference to Minecraft and just say what his vision is.
Minecraft was introduced at a time the digital age was happening. Now that we live in it, there are two trends: 1. Yearning for a life before the digital age 2. Exponentially much more of it.
Who did it better: Notch or Microsoft? Microsoft can push Minecraft to a whole new level that Notch might not have been able to achieve. But does that mean the game is getting better or not?
Notch by a mile. The Super Duper Graphics Pack was a joke to promote the launch of Xbox One X.
The bedrock edition is a mess and the Switch version has issues. The game has gone nowhere. We should’ve had Minecraft 2 by now.
Bullshit. The game has made great strides thanks to Microsoft. Especially in the education segment. Sure there are some things that you can nitpick like the Graphics Pack being delayed. But besides that I can't see the game being better than it is now if they never sold to Microsoft.
Also Minecraft 2 is never gonna happen. There is no point.
Zarmena Khan writes: "with Mojang sold, reports surfaced last week that Markus “Notch” Persson had purchased a $70 million mansion in Beverley Hills, California, beating Beyonce and Jay Z to it."
