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It seems, although I say this having no actual knowledge, that Microsoft is preparing to release a .NET version of Minecraft. I suspect that's a big driver for
by oldmanjay 12y ago
It seems, although I say this having no actual knowledge, that Microsoft is preparing to release a .NET version of Minecraft. I suspect that's a big driver for the ongoing push to federate the framework across the major platforms. I would imagine any official modding API would happen once that release is complete.
Granted, I could be totally wrong on this, but it's fun speculation.
- TillE 12y ago> a .NET version of Minecraft That would be really quick. It's only been about seven months since the acquisition, and Minecraft is not a simple game. I have no doubt they are rewriting the game (or a sequel) from scratch, but I wouldn't expect to see it any time soon.
- neovive 12y agoThis would make a lot of sense for Microsoft, since the Minecraft brand is so strong. If anyone has ever played Project Spark from Microsoft (Team Dakota), there are quite a few synergies there as well.
- soup10 12y agoThey have some of the codebase in c++ already from minecraft Xbox and pocket edition versions. If they expect it to be a long term ip/revenue source they will probably want a unified c++ codebase. Hard to improve the graphics engine much without biting that bullet.
- magicalist 12y agoYeah, the team is still actively tweeting updates about adding features and refactoring parts of the original code base. There's not even a slight chance a port would be even out of the planning stages. Even the most gung-ho C# pusher at Microsoft would also ask what benefit porting it would give. Years (if we're being realistic) just to get to feature parity all so it runs on top of .NET?
- ultimape 12y agoWell, the xbox version of minecraft could be ported back to pc.