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While Infiniminer was an acknowledged inspiration of Minecraft's, I think it's fair to say that Minecraft is a fork (schism is maybe more accurate), since the f
by scott_karana 12y ago
While Infiniminer was an acknowledged inspiration of Minecraft's, I think it's fair to say that Minecraft is a fork (schism is maybe more accurate), since the focus of the game was changed towards the creative/exploratory aspects, instead of the "competitive mining" aspect.
- voidlogic 12y agoInfiniminer was written in C#, so calling Minecraft a fork isn't fair since they don't share a common source lineage. However, saying Infiniminer was the inspiration for Minecraft or that early Minecraft was a Infiniminer clone seems more fair.