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Having watched the discussion around 0x10^c for the past year, it's hilarious to see all the comments (reddit, twitter, etc) where people seem to think it would
by Deestan 13y ago
Having watched the discussion around 0x10^c for the past year, it's hilarious to see all the comments (reddit, twitter, etc) where people seem to think it would help if Mojang just hired a large team to "pick up the pace". Notch was struggling to make the creative vision coherent - throwing manpower on the problem to "just start implementing it" would just have locked down the incoherencies and made the project unsalvageable.
Given how seemingly intolerable the pressure on this game has been, it makes sense to just drop it. Maybe once the thing cools down and no-one is watching, he'll become motivated to work on it in quiet.
Which leads naturally to some wild speculation: If I were Notch, and just got some renewed motivation to develop the game, I would have just told everyone "I have stopped - project's dead" so I could work on it in peace.
- workbench 13y agoHe could barely tell what it was meant to be in the first place. The idea was a complete vague mess and when he started working on it the direction only became more and more confused
- scotty79 13y agoBy hiring large team they might have accidentally hire someone who would pick up the vision and carry it further. Who knows, maybe Notch would join back in if he saw someone expanding on his idea and making things happen. I think I abandoned a lot of projects because no one shared my passion for them to the point of actually owning and developing parts of them. If no one cares enough about the idea to work on it then maybe I also shouldn't.
- shrikant 13y agoBy hiring large team they might have accidentally hire someone who would pick up the vision and carry it further. Please don't use this hiring advice.
- scotty79 13y agoHeh. It wasn't intended as such. Just an observation what might happen if you have too much money, not enough ideas about what to focus on and you start hiring awesome people.
- benjamincburns 13y ago> If I were Notch, and just got some renewed motivation to develop the game, I would have just told everyone "I have stopped - project's dead" so I could work on it in peace. You might be correct that he's succumbing to the pressure. However, I don't think that'd have the affect you're after. At least not in the short term. Announcements like that don't bring peace and quiet when you've already got a bunch of kids in the back seat screaming "are we there yet?"