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You guys should have invented Minecraft. Even LEGO Digital Designer was crap and got outcompeted by Bricklink Studio, which was a company like 1/1000 the size.

josephg 5y ago
There was a statement by LEGO's CEO a few years ago making the same point - that they wished they invented minecraft, and talking about how they totally missed the ball on that.
- dolmen 5y ago
  You can listen to that testimony on the Bits n' Bricks podcast published by The LEGO Group. This is in episode "A Fabled History" (April 7th). https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2020/december/lego-games-25-anniversary https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2020/december/lego-g...
jacquesm 5y ago
Free Bricks are anathema to a company selling bricks.
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  They massively missed the boat there - Minecraft became a multi-billion dollar industry.
- sumtechguy 5y ago
  There are a few programs out there that let you build sets using the ldraw spec. A good place to start is https://www.ldraw.org/ https://www.ldraw.org/ https://www.ldraw.org/downloads-2/third-party-software.html https://www.ldraw.org/downloads-2/third-party-software.html They had plugins for awhile that exported to 3d programs (blender, pov, etc) for awhile if I remember correctly. There are also links to semi reasonable CAD style programs. There is another editor someone recently came out with (the name escapes me at the moment) that looks very promising. I would combine the ldraw programs with sites like brickset and others to get the exact pieces in the sets I knew I owned. That way I could build things in 3d then build them for real. I think one of the programs I used had a instruction builder too that you could print out.
  - app4soft 5y ago
    Has you heard about *"Datsville RPG" project — a free 3D game based on LDraw? [0] https://isometricland.net/blog/2021/03/datsville-rpg-synopsis/ https://isometricland.net/blog/2021/03/datsville-rpg-synopsi...

josephg 5y ago

There was a statement by LEGO's CEO a few years ago making the same point - that they wished they invented minecraft, and talking about how they totally missed the ball on that.

dolmen 5y ago
You can listen to that testimony on the Bits n' Bricks podcast published by The LEGO Group. This is in episode "A Fabled History" (April 7th). https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2020/december/lego-games-25-anniversary https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2020/december/lego-g...

jacquesm 5y ago

Free Bricks are anathema to a company selling bricks.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
They massively missed the boat there - Minecraft became a multi-billion dollar industry.
sumtechguy 5y ago
There are a few programs out there that let you build sets using the ldraw spec. A good place to start is https://www.ldraw.org/ https://www.ldraw.org/ https://www.ldraw.org/downloads-2/third-party-software.html https://www.ldraw.org/downloads-2/third-party-software.html They had plugins for awhile that exported to 3d programs (blender, pov, etc) for awhile if I remember correctly. There are also links to semi reasonable CAD style programs. There is another editor someone recently came out with (the name escapes me at the moment) that looks very promising. I would combine the ldraw programs with sites like brickset and others to get the exact pieces in the sets I knew I owned. That way I could build things in 3d then build them for real. I think one of the programs I used had a instruction builder too that you could print out.
- app4soft 5y ago
  Has you heard about *"Datsville RPG" project — a free 3D game based on LDraw? [0] https://isometricland.net/blog/2021/03/datsville-rpg-synopsis/ https://isometricland.net/blog/2021/03/datsville-rpg-synopsi...