Minecraft clone FortressCraft declared fastest-selling XBLIG title

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  I'm curious to know how Notch allowed another company to blatantly rip off Minecraft and profit from it. : asrivastava
  • He didn't push into other markets fast enough? He's not exactly a businessman. He has more than enough fi... : silent prophet
  • That's the joy of getting lawyers involved...if he bothered. Why should he come out looking like a dbag ... : dedgecko
  • Is Minecraft a particular game? Or more a type of game? When Duke3D came out people weren't saying "I'... : Schnapple
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    what makes you think Notch would have to "allow" this? : electroly
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      and whatever argument you provide, please also provide an explanation of how your argument applies to Min... : electroly
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        In you're pointless little world, Megaman is the same as Mario because they're both platformers. Fortr... : st4rdog
        • lmao @ It even has bookcases. : boring gegtik
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          you don't understand. it doesn't matter if FortressCraft is a complete rip. making clone software is to : electroly
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            Well, to an extent. If you patent something in your software then no one can make something using it. Not... : Schnapple
            • are you suggesting that Notch holds patents for algorithms used in Minecraft? : electroly
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            I used to be very interested in this because I made a few iphone games that were basically tetris attack ... : Chandler55
            • Tetris in particular is touchy; The Tetris Company is a big nuisance and tends to send out Cease & Desist... : electroly
        • amazing : yAak
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    Minecraft is itself a clone of another game. There's nothing wrong with cloning games, especially when th... : roggor
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      What a load of shit. Lots of people have proposed that there's nothing to it, and never get further than ... : thebigbeefsandwich
      • Unlike minecraft, infiniminer actually sucked as a game. So yeah, you can sure as hell steal a concept an... : roggor
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        to be fair, most people purchased minecraft because they thought of all the possibilities of what it COUL... : kelbane
        • I definitely fall into this category. The updates were fast and hinted at more until the game hit it big... : Poor Yurik
        • I bought it because you could mine, and you could craft, and there were exploding cactuseses. : Ebu
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          to be fair, you just made that "statistic" up... : deject
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            i didn't intend for it to be a statistic, just my perception of the whole shackhype of minecraft : kelbane
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              This is the same as that "not intended to be a factual statement" line. : deject
              • his perception of the shackhype (and subsequent diminishment thereof) is a lot more spot on than yours : MamiyaOtaru
    • Notch made something simple and made it (mostly) work. That's more than most can brag about. : guigr
    • Here you go: http://www.ace-spades.com/ Still needs a lot of work, but it's coming along rather nicely. ... : Memphis-Ahn
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    What about all of those blatant Robotron ripoffs? Or the blatant Commando ripoffs (like Ikari Warriors)? ... : roushimsx
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      You're not understanding his point. SOMEONE RIPPED OFF MINECRAFT! : Ebu
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        Minecraft ripped off another game. Notch flat out admits that he borrowed his idea of another game and m... : kingdepork
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          I'm wondering what this other game was called. OtherGameCraft? : mobab
          • Infiniminer, found here: http://thesiteformerlyknownas.zachtronicsindustries.com/?p=713 : morsxcessum
        • (Yes, I was being sarcastic) : Ebu
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          Call of Duty outright ripped off of Medal Honor and I dont recall any credit being given to Dreamworks Interactive in the manual/copyright/credits
          
          Darkwatch was a reskinned Halo clone but no one cared.
          
          God, and don't even get me started on Gameloft and Popcap. Zuma didn't even try to be different from PuzzLoop.

          Apr 18, 2011 11:44am PDT
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          Call of Duty outright ripped off of Medal Honor and I dont recall any credit being given to Dreamworks In... : roushimsx
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            Juuuuust going to throw this out there, but CoD was the vision Zampella had for MoH when he was DD for 20... : Powerslave98
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              Just throwing it out there but 2015 didnt create medal of honor, they were creating a followup to an alre... : roushimsx
              • Well, to be fair, I never stated that 2015 created MoH. I said they were the developers on MoH:AA, the fr... : Powerslave98
    • best answer. : barichnikov
    • Except FortressCraft does absolutely nothing different at all. It barely even tried to come up with a dif... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
  • Uhm, you do know, Minecraft was also based off of something else... also read all these other comments. : socom8271
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  People just love block based gameplay! : trove
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    I bet Lego is kicking themselves right now. : CapnChaos
    • Blockland kicked ass back in the day : roushimsx
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      I'm sure Lego is too busy making loads of money from the Star Wars games. : cryptical
      • Oh that's true. Those are good too. : CapnChaos
    • What ever happened to Lego Universe? I wasn't too interested in it, but a totally sandbox, Lego MMO would... : VencieraX
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  Man high-resolution textures just look so weird to me in that kind of game. : Rotten Deadite
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    looks great to me. i also like the avatars instead of blocky shit looking characters. i understand the "t... : retarded talking dinosaur
    • Yeah I like the avatars, and high-res textures makes more sense with avatars and high-res object models. ... : Rotten Deadite
  • I agree, I went all out and installed the Misa 64 textures + shaders last week to try to play, but I ende... : aethyr
• Someone needs to make a minecraft/Cubivore hybrid. : baron calamity
• Infiniminer clone Minecraft clone FortressCraft declared fastest-selling XBLIG title, : barichnikov
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  I'm inventing a version right now that allows for rounded objects, once complete I expect full world domi... : grandmasterlee
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    Well... the problem is.. I don't think spheres stack quite as neatly. : Gwyndion
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      rounded corners =\ spheres, your lack of vision is why I'll be running things : grandmasterlee
      • into the ground. : james_austintx
      • I was mostly joking.. but seriously, once you add rounded edges and different shapes... destroying and cr... : Gwyndion
    • Someone should make a 3d version of the old terrain-tiling techniques from the 16-bit era. : 60days
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  Didn't like it. It's purely creative mode. You have access to infinite blocks of all variety. They giv... : kingdepork
  • so you dont actually have to mine anything? that's kind of silly. : retarded talking dinosaur
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    So basically Minecraft creative mode? : Haxim
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      Yes, which gets boring pretty quick. Only there are hidden relics every time a level is created. Like a... : kingdepork
      • Ugh really? That's no Minecraft clone..... More like Blahkland clone : / : VencieraX
    • Yup.. and I think mining with limited resources together with fear for your life a what pushed the game b... : Gwyndion
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  Are there monsters and such in this game? : mastermike569
  • looks like kingdepork answered my question. :( : mastermike569
• This is not even close to worthy of dethroning IMaGWZiI. You sons of bitches. : passingstranger
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  I played it and its not that great to be honest. Quite broken. : matseffect
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    I don't think they can hear you over the $100k+ profit they've made in a week. :( : silent prophet
    • So you're saying they cloned the Minecraft development process too? : vitaminzach
• Any comment on how the controls are? A controller would seem to be really bad in this case... : hussdelrio
• They've actually sold 58K units over the first 6 days: http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/28044/4874... : Code RedBeard
• That's sad. There's so many other games on the X-Box indie store that deserve the money more. Hopefully ... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
• i played the demo and it sucked terribly : feek
• Manic Digger is the only true clone : MamiyaOtaru