Notch's Next Game is '0x10c'

Sounds like something I don't want to play!

I have no idea how to pronounce that, so I'm going to continue to call it "Mars Effect", his April Fool's name announcement.

@mbr2 said:

0x10c more like Starcraft AMIRITE!? No? Sorry...

Got an audible chuckle out of me with this one.

Edit:

@Paul_Is_Drunk said:

@Erotolepsy said:

Seriously? I'm a perpetually stoned humanities major and the sciencese didn't seem that dense: "your astronaut's sleep machine broke. you wake up at the end of the universe," seems like the long and short of it.

Holy crap. My time machine from the past worked!

Listen, past self, you are about to go through some major changes. First of all, stop trying to open beer bottles with your teeth. Yeah, it's a cool party trick, but you'll pay for it later. Secondly, while German women are fun, don't fall in love with them. They are only using you for sex. Do the same. Lastly, we need to get your time machine to send you back before we cause some kind of temporal collapse. Unfortunately I can only offer long distance advice, as the presence of us both in the same room could be dangerous. I mean, I'm... you... we are not gay or anything, but we are very attractive, and technically it would just be masturbating...

See what I mean?! Quick, back to 2004!

As did this one -- Best comment section I've seen in awhile.

fucking awesome. can't wait to play it.

you've got a cloaking device but the ship is controlled by a emulated 16bit computer? waaaaa? computer programmer wanking is all I am hearing.

Ok, so like Barbie's Adventure Island. Got it.

So, Mooncraft

The first rule of enjoying Hard Science Fiction? Always have a safe word.

Notch is awesome. And his viking blood makes him even better.

@Jaqen_HGhar said:

@psoplayer: Just want to point you to this mod, which takes the "computer in computer" to a new extreme for me.

That mod hurts my head! Why would you.... it's so.... AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! (But really, it all seems super awesome.)

@countinhallways said:

@EmuLeader said:

I think the premise is kind of hilarious, considering I've never seen anyone have the basis of their story revolve around a computer register input incompatibility. 0x10c is still an odd name though. Depending on the input style, it is either

0x0001 0000 1100 or 0x1100 0000 0001. Neither one of those is the number mentioned in the story, so I wonder what it is supposed to mean.

0x denotes hexidecimal, 10 in hex is 16, c in hex is 12,

So 0x10^c translates to 16^12 in the decimal system. 16^12 = 281 474 976 710 656.

In the story something happened that led people to be "lost" or "sleep" or some shit. The first people to wake are now doing so in the year 281 474 976 712 644AD after 16^12 years.

So I guess the event that caused this "sleep" occurred in 281 474 976 712 644 - 281 474 976 710 656 = 1988.

Of course I could be totally and utterly incorrect.

Makes sense to me. I didn't realize the c was supposed to be an exponent, in the post it was looked like another number. 1988 seems like a very plausible start to the game, especially a sci-fi one dealing with such an error.

@psoplayer: Just want to point you to this mod, which takes the "computer in computer" to a new extreme for me.

If the computer in 0x10c turns out to be hard to work with, I hope players like you will be there to help players like me!

My mind is reeling with some of the possibilities suggested by the concept that Notch has described so far. The idea that you have an emulated computer to control your ship that runs even when you aren't playing is rather interesting. I imagine that with some degree of skill, the whole thing becomes a programming metagame where you're merely writing code for the computer to control your ship while you aren't logged in. (Would give you the advantage of effectively playing the game 24/7?)

I also imagine that there are simple ways to share computer code with others in the game so that you can grab and remix cool routines written by others. Perhaps someone crazy enough to build an ALU in Minecraft would write a BASIC compiler for the in-game DCPU bringing down the barrier to entry for everyone else. Carry that line of thought to a logical extreme: You end up joining 0x10c as a new player many years from now and your first steps in getting off the ground are to go download the DCPU port of the GCC, compile yourself the latest version of the community written kernel, etc.

@d00dCOMEON said:

one failure after another until his fan base moves on and he quickly becomes bankrupt

What are your standards for success? If many many millions of dollars earned off of an indie java game made by a very small team, a gigantic and avid fanbase/community who play the game regularly (check out the minecraft reddit, or the forums), and continued support for a game that cost 1/3 of what major retail games cost and to this day releases patches on an almost weekly basis is failure, then I can't really see ANYBODY making a successful game EVER.

And now he's barely announced his new game, which sounds really innovative and cool, and the internet hate machine is already spooling up. I just cannot for the life of me understand the Notch Hate.

And to tie up all of the other misconceptions here, Scrolls is being developed by another team within Mojang, Jeb and the Bukkit team are working on minecraft and pushing regular updates, and the monthly subscription is only for the online play, which will apparently be persistent and thus require servers and thus require money.

hell yeah! Mars effect! can't wait

You have no idea how much I want this game right now. I especially like this part:

The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish.

How fucking cool is that? Landing on planets, mining, trading, looting and all that... if this actually delivers on what it seems he want to do, this is going to be a huge time-sink.

Just as modded Minecraft has been for me. 'cause with mods Minecraft turns into a goddamn beast of a game, where you can really have fun with constructions, advanced machines and all that. Hell, on the server I play on now I am working on making a railroad network. With signal lights, diverting tracks, stations... the works. Not many games let you do that, and that is just a small part of what I can do.

I might even consider paying the monthly fee to join in on the multiplayer, 'cause that might be pretty neat.

Hard sci-fi?

I will save the universe from inevitable heat death! By...by...uh...

Sounds awesome. About 6 other similar projects that are in the works right now as well. Excited to see the outcome of all, because playing Pioneer lately has got me really juiced for this wave of new-Elite games.

As someone who plays and loves EVE and also plays Minecraft, I cannot wait for this.

You overlooked the part where he suggested there may be a monthly fee. I wonder if he'll be able to pull that off? He'll have to present something extremely compelling to do it, especially since he'll be competing with himself this time.

I haven't even played Minecraft. I still love this guy and hope this game is a success.

@Erotolepsy said:

Seriously? I'm a perpetually stoned humanities major and the sciencese didn't seem that dense: "your astronaut's sleep machine broke. you wake up at the end of the universe," seems like the long and short of it.

Holy crap. My time machine from the past worked!

Listen, past self, you are about to go through some major changes. First of all, stop trying to open beer bottles with your teeth. Yeah, it's a cool party trick, but you'll pay for it later. Secondly, while German women are fun, don't fall in love with them. They are only using you for sex. Do the same. Lastly, we need to get your time machine to send you back before we cause some kind of temporal collapse. Unfortunately I can only offer long distance advice, as the presence of us both in the same room could be dangerous. I mean, I'm... you... we are not gay or anything, but we are very attractive, and technically it would just be masturbating...

See what I mean?! Quick, back to 2004!

I don't see charging for multiplayer being viable unless it is really cheap.

Good thing I'm a computer engineer and I 100% understood the premise


:)

one failure after another until his fan base moves on and he quickly becomes bankrupt

Oextensi.

Seems interesting. Probably wont be out until next year though.

Still, I doubt anything was expecting anything quite this specifically bonkers.

Aww, I like heat death better than cold death...

That concept is amazing.

This actually sounds pretty cool. Hopefully, and unlike what Minecraft turned into, it is. For me, anyway.

Sounds pretty interesting, potentially industry shakingly fantastic. I will follow this with interest, the best things often come from accidental success stories.

I'm just gonna read it out: zero-ex-ten-cee

I like Notch's insane use of computer science in his backstory.

From what I've heard 0x10c is supposed to be pronounced 'Ten to the C'.

Holllly shit he even released the instruction set for his 16 bit CPU. I am really curious as to how interacting with that thing will come into play.

"Now the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD..."

Sold!

I might learn to love the thing. Privateer, here we come again! :)

Whatever. When this dude proves he's not a one-hit wonder and releases a game that doesn't crib heavily from other lesser known games, maybe I'll pay attention to what he has to say.

I know he was stuck on a name, but really, he named it in hex?

Hang on, wasn't this his April Fools joke?

0x10c more like Starcraft AMIRITE!? No? Sorry...

Love the story behind it. Never got into Minecraft, so maybe this will be the one for me

Has anyone else put forth the idea that the game could involve flying to various planets that are in fact people's Minecraft worlds? I think that'd be cool.

I liked it better back when it was Mars Effect.

The title reminds me of an error a game once gave me while kicking me out. Think it was a gfx error in Diablo 2

@TheHumanDove said:

Notch stinks

Yeah. He stinks.. of MONEY!!!

I don´t know, Notch seems like an alright dude and the premise for this game is bananas, so I like it a whole lot. You can´t go any more niche-genre than "Space Sim with simulated onboard computer and power management". I bet NASA just soiled their nerdy pants.

I feel like a damn nerd knowing what big and little endian are.

@countinhallways said:

@EmuLeader said:

I think the premise is kind of hilarious, considering I've never seen anyone have the basis of their story revolve around a computer register input incompatibility. 0x10c is still an odd name though. Depending on the input style, it is either

0x0001 0000 1100 or 0x1100 0000 0001. Neither one of those is the number mentioned in the story, so I wonder what it is supposed to mean.

0x denotes hexidecimal, 10 in hex is 16, c in hex is 12,

So 0x10^c translates to 16^12 in the decimal system. 16^12 = 281 474 976 710 656.

In the story something happened that led people to be "lost" or "sleep" or some shit. The first people to wake are now doing so in the year 281 474 976 712 644AD after 16^12 years.

So I guess the event that caused this "sleep" occurred in 281 474 976 712 644 - 281 474 976 710 656 = 1988.

Of course I could be totally and utterly incorrect.

0+1+0=1

So, think about that, huh?

Straight garbage.