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Wait, I thought development of Minecraft started in 2007? Wouldn't that put it before Infiniminer?

by ycta20220624 4y ago

fartcannon 4y ago
According to Notch, Infiniminer was "the game I wanted to do". https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Infiniminer https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Infiniminer
papercrane 4y ago
> I thought development of Minecraft started in 2007? The first version of Minecraft was developed May 2009, Infiniminer was released April 2009.
capableweb 4y ago
Straight from the horse's mouth: The World of Notch - The origins of Minecraft | https://web.archive.org/web/20160604071857/https://notch.tumblr.com/post/227922045/the-origins-of-minecraft https://web.archive.org/web/20160604071857/https://notch.tum... > While looking through some project folders, I found an old protype of a game that never quite became anything. Kinda. > It was called “RubyDung” (for various reasons), and was supposed to be a base building game inspired by Dwarf Fortress > As the RubyDung engine got more advanced, I started thinking about adding a first person view for following your minions around, kinda like in Dungeon Keeper. It worked ok, but the graphics got very pixellated and distorted, so I left it out. > But then I found Infiniminer. My god, I realized that that was the game I wanted to do. I played it in multiplayer for a while and had a blast, but found it flawed. Building was fun, but there wasn’t enough variation, and the big red/blue blocks were pretty horrible. I thought a fantasy game in that style would work really really well, so I tried to implement a simple first person engine in that style, reusing some art and code (although not as much as you’d think) from RubyDung, and came up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k Unfortunately, that last YouTube link is not viewable for me ("This video contains content from Nizzotch. It is not available in your country."). But the conclusion is: Infiniminer was definitely a huge inspiration on Minecraft.
- ehsankia 4y ago
  I just searched the title "cave game tech test" and found a bunch of re-uploads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpv5kZ9-rE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpv5kZ9-rE
- franknine 4y ago
  People Make Games made a video about this Infiniminer/Minecraft story and they interviewed Zach Barth. When Microsoft was reviewing the 2.5B Minecraft deal, Zach was working for Microsoft and was on those meetings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Nq2vNcpIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Nq2vNcpIo

Wait, I thought development of Minecraft started in 2007? Wouldn't that put it before Infiniminer?

According to Notch, Infiniminer was "the game I wanted to do". https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Infiniminer https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Infiniminer

papercrane 4y ago

> I thought development of Minecraft started in 2007? The first version of Minecraft was developed May 2009, Infiniminer was released April 2009.

capableweb 4y ago

Straight from the horse's mouth: The World of Notch - The origins of Minecraft | https://web.archive.org/web/20160604071857/https://notch.tumblr.com/post/227922045/the-origins-of-minecraft https://web.archive.org/web/20160604071857/https://notch.tum... > While looking through some project folders, I found an old protype of a game that never quite became anything. Kinda. > It was called “RubyDung” (for various reasons), and was supposed to be a base building game inspired by Dwarf Fortress > As the RubyDung engine got more advanced, I started thinking about adding a first person view for following your minions around, kinda like in Dungeon Keeper. It worked ok, but the graphics got very pixellated and distorted, so I left it out. > But then I found Infiniminer. My god, I realized that that was the game I wanted to do. I played it in multiplayer for a while and had a blast, but found it flawed. Building was fun, but there wasn’t enough variation, and the big red/blue blocks were pretty horrible. I thought a fantasy game in that style would work really really well, so I tried to implement a simple first person engine in that style, reusing some art and code (although not as much as you’d think) from RubyDung, and came up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k Unfortunately, that last YouTube link is not viewable for me ("This video contains content from Nizzotch. It is not available in your country."). But the conclusion is: Infiniminer was definitely a huge inspiration on Minecraft.

ehsankia 4y ago
I just searched the title "cave game tech test" and found a bunch of re-uploads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpv5kZ9-rE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpv5kZ9-rE
franknine 4y ago
People Make Games made a video about this Infiniminer/Minecraft story and they interviewed Zach Barth. When Microsoft was reviewing the 2.5B Minecraft deal, Zach was working for Microsoft and was on those meetings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Nq2vNcpIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Nq2vNcpIo