Today, Domino YouTuber midobo uploads a video of a pickaxe "mining" a coal block.
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Today, Domino YouTuber midobo uploads a video of a pickaxe "mining" a coal block.
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Today, user KurtJMac starts an ordinary Minecraft Let's Play, walking through the traditional steps of surviving the first night.
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Today, user Miclee posts a video showing some unnerving-looking sheep and squid.
In other news, the Mojang crew is enjoying the rest of their vacation in Las Vegas!
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Today, user NHPLAY uploads "another minecraft vid.wmv", a tale of skeleton snipers, railway accidents, and heartbreak.
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You can read more commentary here:
c418.org/albums/minec...
And buy the album for just 6$ here:
A freelancer, Rosenfeld does not work at Mojang (that would simply be too many Dannys), but given the deep ties, there's sure to be much more cooperation in the future.
Brought on when Minecraft was still in its infancy, C418's (AKA Daniel Rosenfeld's) music deliberately subverted expectations. Though Minecraft has extremely basic graphics, the gentle, minimalist, randomly-playing music struck a chord. Now, Minecrafters can listen to it at their leisure!
Today, C418 releases Minecraft - Volume Alpha.
His first commercial album, half of the tracks are from the game and half are album exclusives / unused / borrowed from Life Changing Moments. Those lifted from Minecraft are finally officially named (e.g. "calm1.ogg" is called "Minecraft").
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Today, Gamestar publishes their Minecraft interview conducted during GDC.
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In sum, these are the awards Mojang gets to take back to Sweden:
IGF - Audience Award
IGF - Seamus McNally Grand Prize
GDC - Best Debut Game
GDC - Best Downloadable Game
GDC - Innovation Award
They also take home a combined $22,500
(not that they particularly needed it...)
So concludes GDC 2011!
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SpyParty
Nidhogg
"Big or small, the games that are nominated for this year's Seamus McNally grand prize all had humble origins. All touched us in unique ways. Here are the nominees for the best independent game of the year."
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Desktop Dungeons
"The IGF is not intended to make a small thing big. It's to remind us that there's beauty hidden in the shadow... of the big games. The IGF reminds the world that the flower is as beautiful as the forest, and the discovery of a diamond is as worthwhile a pursuit as the discovery of a mountain."...
"When you're indie for long enough, you learn to become myopic. You learn to make little things. Selling 1 unit is thrilling. I knew an indie who lived out of his car in Mexico stealing WiFi from internet cafes. Who can expect to make it big with a corporate strategy like that?"...
Previous Seamus McNally Grand Prize winner Andy Schatz had this to say prior to announcing the winner:
"In the real world, people build big things... in the real world, microtransactions make macro profits and a million unit seller is a failure. In the real world, bigger is better"...
A picture of 5 trophies. 3 are silver boxes with "game developers choice awards" written on them in blue. 2 are overlapping gold rings with the words "2011 Independent Games Festival" on them in black Credit: https://www.moddb.com/games/minecraft/images/gdcaigf-awards#imagebox
Grainy screenshot of the 8 Mojang employees accepting the Seamus McNally Grand Prize. From left to right, the employees are Daniel Kaplan, Markus Persson, Jakob Porser, Daniel Frisk, Daniel Kaplan, Jens, and Tobias Mollstrom, hidden in shadow. The 3 presenters are in the background.
Today, Minecraft wins 5 out of the 6 awards it was nominated for by the GDC + IGF! (Plus an audience award) The combined award show runs for two hours and features the smallest of indie games at the start, the largest AAA titles at the end, and Minecraft all throughout. (a first for GDC!)
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In non-Minecraft news, Mojang has officially announced their secretive second game: Scrolls!
Being the main focus of Jakob and Junkboy from the get-go, the game won't significantly impact Minecraft's development, but will be a card/board game fantasy game with a simple, uncontroversial title.
Markus Persson, sans hat, being interviewed by 2 guys sitting on the grass with him in the sun.
Today, GDC continues. More meetings and meals are had, plus an interview in the park with PCGamer!
Some who got to network with Mojang were Curse (who run the Minecraft Forum and Wiki), and Danny, composer for Super Meat Boy (not be confused with any of the 3 Minecraft-related Daniels).
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was officially established. This formation was a core component of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which restructured federal agencies following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
[Please note that I am against ICE. #FuckICE]
A tournament bracket involving 64 game studios. Mojang is in the West Division, starting off against Nintendo of all opponents. The winners are censored because I couldn't get an archive of the first round
In March news, the new month is bringing in more than Madness, but full-on Mayhem! The Escapist Magazine has started a tournament involving 64 developers, including the young upstart Mojang. Brackets can be made starting today, but voting doesn't begin until the 14th. How far will Mojang make it?
Markus Persson scratching his nose on a stage reading what appear to be audience questions. There's a chair at the front with Google's logo Credit: https://www.moddb.com/games/minecraft/images/notch-at-google#imagebox
In other GDC news, famous game designer Peter Molyneux has influenced Minecraft's development in just a single meeting - dogs are apparently on the list of additions now. That's just 1 of the 'big meetings' Mojang has had today!
Today, The Game Developers Conference (or GDC for short) begins in San Francisco! For the next 3 days, industry professionals will meet, talk, learn, and those studios that were nominated stand a chance of receiving awards on Wednesday- including Mojang. 2PP is on-site to document it all.
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In music news, C418 is reworking his "Life Changing Moments" album for the 2 Player Productions version.
In video news, Vareide releases another one
Today, the Mojang team gets some much-needed rest after their long flight - especially the long-suffering Tobias, who had to repair minecraft.net yet again mid-flight!
They sneak in some recreation too, going shopping and having dinner with the Oxeye Games team (Jeb's old crew).
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From left to right, Jahkob, Kappische, Carl(I think. Probably him) and Tobias. - Kizzycocoa, 2011 Credit: https://www.moddb.com/games/minecraft/images/mojang-is-now-in-the-airport-in-stockholm#imagebox
In other news, Team Mojang departs Sweden and makes it to San Francisco with enough time to recuperate from their jet lag before GDC starts next week.
Today, CaptainSparklez releases "TNT", a parody of Dynamite by TaioCruz. The video combines in-game footage with 3D character animation, similar to "In Search of Diamonds" by The Shaft from last November. The lyrics are sung by tryhardninja, and audio engineering is by Doc Exx Music.
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Today, 2 Player Productions announces the first 3,000 backers to their Kickstarter (already at 80k) will receive "Life Changing Moments Seem Minor in Pictures" by C418. They'll also throw in their "Blip Festival 2008 Live Recordings".
They'll be at GDC too, thanks to getting passes.
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Today, 2 Player Productions announces C418 will be composing an original score for the Minecraft documentary!
In other news, user Tritex makes use of the new repeaters
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The world with seed "glacier", a bunch of huge mountains near spawn, with a cool lake and flat areas at their base. Credit: https://imgur.com/went-back-to-1-7-used-seed-glacier-QZgeJ
Today, Beta 1.3_01 is released as a patch for yesterday's update.
In other news, Jens elaborates on the texture in the files, confirming it was an abandoned project.
He also writes a blog post explaining what the map seed is, how it works, and shares a particularly pretty one: "Glacier"
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* Sandstone generates under sand
* Stone slabs crafted with stone, not cobblestone
* Pressure plates crafted with 2 blocks, not 3
* Redstone dust gets darker the weaker the signal is
* Sulphur renamed to gunpowder
* Passive mobs spawn less the harder the difficulty is set to
* Function keys toggle
Texture for crying obsidian, a block that was considered when developing a way to change a player's spawn point, but left unused and then discarded in favor of beds, until the Nether Update, when it was brought back, with the old texture making it into the Programmer Art texture pack
"Skull on Fire", Zetterstrand, 2010. A pixelated image of a human skull with Minecraft fire particles covering it, sitting on grass in the foreground. In the background, a distinctly square moon sets behind a dark hill. An actual painting given to Wojciech Mroczek, the winner of a texture pack competition, a digital copy has now been added to Minecraft
* File format significantly improved thanks to user Scaevolus
* terrain.png has a new, unused texture
* "Skull on Fire" fills in blank painting from last update
* View bobs in 3rd person
* Horns on cow model shifted to side of head
* Squids sacrifice their milk for 3-dimensional movement
The new world selection screen Credit: https://minecraft.wiki/images/Beta_1.3_world_selection_screen.png?3bd21
+ Added new world management system
Unlimited # of worlds
Ability to name and rename worlds
Ability to set seed before creation
Deletion message emphasizes eternity's length
Scrollbar technology
+ Added mouse smoothing
Tied to F8
+ Added entity ids to debug menu