Post by Thundercracker @ 11:42am 19/11/11 | 26 Comments
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Posted 11:53am 19/11/11
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Posted 01:06pm 19/11/11
I'm assuming that minecraft is getting released at some stage today?
Posted 01:18pm 19/11/11
Posted 01:40pm 19/11/11
Posted 01:51pm 19/11/11
Yeah, but that's a bit different, since one is ad-supported and one isn't.
Posted 02:29pm 19/11/11
Posted 02:38pm 19/11/11
Well according to their site this;
Friday, November 18th
10 a.m. Game Room and Exhibit Hall Open
1 - 2:30 p.m. Keynote Address and Minecraft Launch with Notch (Mandalay Bay Ballroom A-G)
2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Panels
YouTube 101 (Jasmine ABEF)
Composing Game Music (Banyan ABCD)
API for Game Developers (Palm A)
Minecraft as a Tool for Education (Palm B)
Creating Custom Maps (Palm C)
Running a Server (Palm D)
4 - 5 p.m. Mojang Panel with Q&A – Live Demos of Scrolls and Cobalt (Mandalay Bay Ballroom A-G)
5:15 - 6:15 p.m. Panels
The Art of Games (Jasmine ABEF)
Machinima Channel Panel (Banyan ABCD)
Bukkit for Multiplayer Servers (Palm A)
Video Editing (Palm B)
YouTube 101 (Palm C)
The Family that Plays Together (Palm D)
7 - 10 p.m. Kickoff Party – Open to all Ages (South Seas Ballroom)
Saturday, November 19th
10 a.m. Game Room and Exhibit Hall Open
10:00 - 11:00 p.m. Panels
Making a Difference – Minecraft (Jasmine ABEF)
YouTube Partners (Banyan ABCD)
Amazing Builds (Palm A)
Minecraft Community Ideas with Curse (Palm B)
Creativity with Redstone (Palm C)
Modder Concepts & Ideas (Palm D)
11:15 - 12:15 p.m. Mojang Developers' Panel (Mandalay Bay Ballroom A-G)
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Yogscast Panel (Mandalay Bay Ballroom A-G)
2:45 - 3:45 p.m. Panels
Creating Compelling Videos (Jasmine ABEF)
Creating Stories and Comics Using Minecraft (Banyan ABCD)
Minecraft Architecture (Palm A)
The Shaft Podcast Live Recording (Palm B)
Family Game Night: Bonding through Minecraft (Palm C)
Creating Mods (Palm D)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Closing Session (Mandalay Bay Ballroom A-G)
10 p.m. Into the Nether party – 21 and over (XS Nightclub, Wynn Hotel)
Really I don't see the point. I think you can get special capes too for attending that your ingame char wears.
Posted 03:12pm 19/11/11
what a f*****g joke.
Posted 03:37pm 19/11/11
Posted 04:28pm 19/11/11
Posted 05:47pm 19/11/11
Well after playing it, it's still VERY far from finished. Sheep don't regrow hair, experience is just as useless as it was in beta (no abilities or anything), no official mod support, the water is boring and empty (it's just squid still) the NPCs in NPC villages are s*** and don't do anything.
It's pretty bulls***. Would much rather it stayed beta and they fix the s*** they had in game first, then add more later. No official mod support s**** me off the most though.
Pretty disappointed. If I bought it now (as it's full price now) I would be pissed as it's still pretty much a beta build.
Posted 05:55pm 19/11/11
Posted 06:54pm 19/11/11
I just wish that they kept it in development mode longer and deliver on what he said he would! Not release it with some stuff incomplete or missing entirely!
I don't know if he has really let the popularity go to his head (Notch), as he said he takes full responsibility for the lack of mod support. I reckon it's a bit of a cop out though, rather than release a half finished product, they should have just pushed the release date back further and finish half the s*** they started.
Gonna be interesting to see how long it takes to deliever on half the s*** that I was expecting at full release.
Posted 07:09pm 19/11/11
Posted 07:20pm 19/11/11
imagine being able to make a ship that you can captain and explore new worlds, krakkens and pirates and s*** that can attack you so you have to prepare before leaving and in multiplayer get a few of you together to man the thing. New lands are completely different biomes with different enemies and resources, which you can trade and sell at server controlled stores.
Posted 07:29pm 19/11/11
http://gamegenus.blogspot.com/2011/11/notch-exits-hands-minecraft-development.html
No more big updates. Small things as Jeb is now the "leader" of Minecraft. Ah well, my hope lasted a little bit. So much rage on the Minecraft forums haha.
Posted 08:17pm 19/11/11
You use experience to enchant tools, weapons and armour at an enchanting table.
Posted 08:41pm 19/11/11
Posted 08:55pm 19/11/11
Then make it so that it's easy to let people save and share the script files so copying buildings out of one world and into another. Is possible without hacking the world data files.
Of course there's probably already a mod that does this, I'm just too lazy to trawl through the forums and find out.
Edit:
oops, no announcement of a mod api/sdk is balls. If mojang are planning to shelve minecraft after making their squillions then it'd be an awesome gift to the community to throw the source code up on github and let others hack away at it.
Posted 09:14pm 19/11/11
Posted 10:37pm 19/11/11
That's all well and good, but he goes straight on to talk about pjs. I don't want friggen pjs, I want official mod support!
I also get that Notch himself might be a bit fatigued from Minecraft and want to do other things. But like I said earlier, the fact they have released a half finished game with half finished concepts and things missing yet keep adding more stuff before they fix the other stuff s**** me right up the wall!