Soo... here is my current minecraft home:

http://cl.ly/aa6cccf00c1368600845
(I put my house on the highest mountain)

http://cl.ly/4f74d99d8dffe8520063
(The same from top of my house)

http://cl.ly/44b7d5e4536c717ff0b2
(My private mine. Goes from the top of the mountain down to the end of the world)

http://cl.ly/6326233011ed00b085d3
(The ground of my mine)

http://cl.ly/3ccf6721f40c08b46def
(Aaand, more from the ground of the mine)

I don't see any sense in this game. The description on Minecrafts Wiki says:

"Gameplay in Minecraft consists mainly of adding and destroying blocks on a map surrounded by water on all sides."

There are no goals, quests or anything. I guess the game is only interesting because of the technique and will get boring as well as Second Life did.

So far it's only a 80x80x40 map with static entities.


At first I only create the top surface, then in another loop I fill visible holes (by checking an array).

The same scene as above renders now at 84fps (same speed without mipmapping). I reduce the entity count by merging nearby cubes of the same height.


(click to enlarge)

Now you can build/ place cubes, too, see the "tree" on the right-hand site of the picture.

EDIT: BTW nice home, Sid! I've created a home on a floating island, too, but it sucked to gather resources.

I totaly understand why this is so popular: people LOVE to create. no matter what. the less limitations the better! and minecraft (though i got bored quite fast by it) is a very well made sandbox for ideas. It cant beat my gamestudio- so i rather stick with that - but i can see why people like it.

I think redoing minecraft now is a waste of time. its out, the big guys will milk that cow and soon the gameworld will be flooded with games like that.

BUT: i think there is something that could be learned from this game type. Something that could be implemented into different games as well.

Adding problems or tasks to games and offering possibilities instead of sollutions can be quite interesting.
Imagine a rpg where the attacking hordes of orcs will be fought by self made catapults and wooden walls. If you place them wrong - you fuddlie up.


games should offer as much interactivity as possible. and mc offers a lot of it.
i hope to see mc will have a huge impact on upcoming games.

yes, it wouldn't make sense to make a minecraft clone now but what makes minecraft great could be applied to many other game ideas.

"There are no goals, quests or anything. I guess the game is only interesting because of the technique and will get boring as well as Second Life did."

Well, Garrys Mod has also no goals and it is just great (while I would not buy Minecraft..)

I did not plan to copy the whole game, I've just wanted to give it a try with gamestudio('s rendering).
I've posted the result in the "Projects" forum.
http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=342592&#Post342592

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but this was what I hoped to see.
Just out of curiosity.
BTW, Damocles, stunning screenshots.

When you play minecraft, keep the following in mind: You will never ever be better than this guy; http://wimp.com/minecraftenterprise/

It is a nice game, played it some years ago when it was still alpha, but I grew bored of it quite fast. I think it has been preceded by eyezmaze's growcube game, e.g. the idea of blockworlds isn't new, this game just caught the attention of the more mainstream casual gamers/internet users. Dwarffortress is way more extended to do build/explore stuff, but also more for the abstract fetishists .