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 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 already successful series built on a strong focus on the individual characters and how their stories intertwined through the games.

              Apr 18, 2011 1:46pm PDT
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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