Minecraft coming to Xbox 360 with Kinect support

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• ....what? : Lord Skellington
• how the he..? : uebersoldat
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  Your living room explodes when a creeper detonates near you : manero
  • sold. : Degenerate
• Maybe with a complete engine overhaul. : AgentPothead
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  Jun 06, 2011 10:45am PDT
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  Haha I've got $5 that says this won't happen by winter. : dumb.
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    It'll happen by winter. It will ship as a beta, though, and won't be "complete" complete for 2.5 years... : RomSteady
    • You'll be able to move around in the game, but the moment you punch or mine, the 360 red rings due to the... : DHAvatar
• oh my : Clay
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  Wha...? Is it going to be ported over from Java? Notch can't even get the native version working right. : silent prophet
  • Also, I can't even imagine what this game will do to the cheap 5400rpm HDDs the Xbox 360 uses. : silent prophet
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    Yeah, unless he gives someone else access to the source code to do the port to XNA or the like I don't se... : Zatric
    • I'm under the assumption that one of his guys has already been working on a port for a while. : TroZ
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    It'll no doubt be recoded from scratch in XNA. I'm guessing he has some guys at Mojang working on it. It ... : Zek
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      If they were going to port it into anything else, I would definitely say XNA is the way to do it. Conside... : silent prophet
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        XNA is quite poor for performance and it doesn't expose Kinect, I imagine they're working on a native C++... : Code RedBeard
        • Java ain't exactly a finely-tuned gaming framework either. :) : silent prophet
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  JUST LIKE REAL MINING. Mine all day! Get tired as fuck! Come home drink beers and beat your wi... : cetra00
  • I'm excited about the possibility the Kinect might be able to give me black lung. The future is here! : silent prophet
  • I hope the collector's edition comes with a coal stained wife beater I can wear while playing. : Dolemite
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  I really wish notch would retire, and hand over the reigns to someone who actually a)knows how to code ... : JohnnyRey
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    Oh here he comes to shit in another minecraft thread! : Arcath
    • Dude, he's a Swede who got rich. Don't expect much of anything. : Marrbe
    • Oh please. I haven't shit in one of these for months : JohnnyRey
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    Just switch to Terraria. It has everything Minecraft doesn't. : deathofrats
    • I already have. Fucking love that game : JohnnyRey
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    I wish he would've sold Minecraft to Valve when they were crazy about it. The possibilities would've bee... : Fpsnut
    • oh man, can you imagine? : JohnnyRey
    • This would have been awesome for gamers, but he wouldn't have made nearly as much money over the long ter... : aethyr
• *record scratch* : chazums
• sounds tedious : ass-street
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  I just hope this isn't Kinect only. : lightbulbsocket
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    Exactly, and it'll have no mods and a massive save file, I'll miss mo'creatures and my texture packs.. Um... : InfernoAblaze
    • The no mods/textures thing is a huge negative, with all the amazing mods and texture packs out there not ... : Zatric
• did not see that coming... : Damann66
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  what exactly do you do in minecraft besides build stuff? : burningpantsman
  • dig holes, peek around corners in fear of what might be there, shit yourself when a ceeper comes up behin... : kikilupo
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    Bitch about Notch : Crabs Jarrard
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      More like Not€h, amirite? : shirif
      • It'd be something like Not:-h : Marrbe
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    You colonize. The core of the game is that: a) the resources you use to build are limited. Some are r... : CampKusoge
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      aren't the maps still infinite? : JohnnyRey
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        Yeah, they are... so I guess calling resources "limited" is a little disingenuous, though some things are... : CampKusoge
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          I was just wondering. I think it would be cool if you could make them NOT infinite. Then the resources wo... : JohnnyRey
          • I agree, that would be cool. Kinda like on Indev, which was already obsolete by the time I learned about ... : CampKusoge
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          they are not infinite but for all intents and purposes they are close enough. also I think what you mean... : mikecyb
          • or just use charcoal which I believe is renewable : ughhhhhhh
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      so it's like warcraft and everquest combined : burningpantsman
      • With a little touch of Dwarf Fortress on the side. : CampKusoge
• All I see is mining being like the fans at a Florida State game doing the arm movement over and over and ... : Ambient80
• Per Notch Here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/ - its being handled by a seperate team at Mojang. : dreamwraith