Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c

silentbrad writes "As announced last month, Notch — creator of Minecraft — is working on a sandbox space game (no, not the Mars Effect April Fools joke, though it's similar). "The game [0x10c] is still extremely early in development, but like we did with Minecraft, we expect to release it early and let the players help me shape the game as it grows. The cost of the game is still undecided, but it's likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in. Single player won't have any recurring fees. ... The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish. Full specifications of the CPU will be released shortly, so the more programatically advanced of you can get a head start.""

Comments

Re:Towns

[ak_hepcat]

Seriously? You think a site like /. doesn't have readers that might be interested in a game that contains
a VIRTUALIZED CPU THAT CAN BE FREELY PROGRAMMED?

What are you, some sort of reddit user?

Re:Towns

[Mr Z]

How many games run the scripts on the server, even when you're not logged in?

Re:Not Java. Please not Java.

[Zaphod The 42nd]

Man, Java isn't my favorite language in the world, but you really need to get over yourself. Notch can make whatever games he cares about, and you're free not to play them if you don't like the engine. Programming is WORK, and if he's putting it in, he can decide what language he wants to work in. If he thinks that being able to run it on any device without recompiling and targeting a separate architecture is worth the performance problems (and these days you can get away with quite a lot) and limitations, then thats his call. No, he can't do the sort of state-of-the-art efficiency that Frostbite 2 engine can pull off, but Notch isn't interested in that, and he doesn't have a big enough team to try to do that, and again, he can do whatever the fuck he wants. You're free to ignore it, but we don't need to hear your "AGH, JAVA!" moans over and over. "Java sucks" isn't really a joke anymore, java is what java is. Use it for what you will. Its one tool of many.

I can only imagine how godawful this would be if written in Java. Minecraft was bad enough on that front. I don't want to know what an emulated CPU would do in a JVM...

You mean like redstone computers that ALREADY EXIST? There's plenty of turing-complete implementations. And notch wasn't even TRYING to do that with minecraft. So please eat your words, immediately.

You're just showing how ignorant you are about software languages.