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I will admit, I used to think Notch was just a regular-joe programmer who had gotten extremely lucky with his strain of adventure game.
Now I know I was dead w
I will admit, I used to think Notch was just a regular-joe programmer who had gotten extremely lucky with his strain of adventure game.
Now I know I was dead wrong.
Emulating a very simple computer like this isn't hard at all; it's basically just a big array for memory, a few variables for registers, and a switch statement for instruction handling.
I think OP's point was not that Notch was a stellar programmer, but that he is a good game designer. (And that the popularity of Minecraft was a result of his skill and not of luck.)
But designing a good, minimalist one is reasonably hard.
I am just in awe. This guy has the guts to imagine shit like this and pull it off.