It didnt crash (not that i remember) although it just gets updated a lot (which causes an instant shutdown and reopen)

It frees memory whenever game is joined or left (although if u was forced out instantly it may not free the map until you join server again so it can create a new one)

Well you can test if you want.

All we wanted was either script support or source to minecraft so we could extent it a bit and make nice great mods for community but that will never happen.

It will never be moddable.

So we decided to make our own game to get what we wanted and its working out quite well we have now got everything + a lot more from our old MC server +its functions.

Now that we have that we are adding all functions we dreamed notch would one day add but never did...

Is it a MC Clone? sure
What is its purpose? to finally be able to mod and create all new stuff that was impossible before
Why is it free and not commercial? Its purely for fun people can say all kinda of clone crap (and considering its only a month old it should look quite clonish) but once its finished it will have stuff that people only ever dreamed of with minecraft.

Since that was the original idea... If you cant mod any parts in your pc what do you? You get a pc where you CAN mod parts in it... Concept applies

That doesnt look like a beat in any way.

That's definitely impressive. I think you should really focus on the CTF, deathmatch etc. aspects of the game. Simplified in-game logic control (logic gate blocks or maybe even really simple if, then, else blocks) would probably add a lot to maps.

Notch idea of modding is changing texture palette he allows for NO true modding of the client... No adding new functions to client, NO adding new monsters to client, NO adding new concepts and new game modes.........

Hes strongly protective of letting anybody near his code he wont even release code to classic which he said he will scrap later once alpha takes off fully.

Quote "That's definitely impressive. I think you should really focus on the CTF, deathmatch etc. aspects of the game. Simplified in-game logic control (logic gate blocks or maybe even really simple if, then, else blocks) would probably add a lot to maps"

This is planned yea we already have full animation of pictures and construction animation many more scriptable stuff will be added.

He has also talked about letting people mod the servers using lua, and also by creating jar files that replaces methods in the server. This will allow people to add more game types to the game. I cannot remember any tweet or blogpost about modding the client, except for the textures, but I have also not seen a tweet or blog post about NOT letting people mod the client. Where does he clearly say that he don't want to add client mods? And all the source will be released in the future. His page says so.

That is true. But you haven't seen the newest version!!!

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It's got amazing per-pixel cloud simulation! It actually takes hours for my tools to render the clouds properly into 3-D bitmaps and then compress them using my proprietary compression format. I spent the last two weeks on the rendering pipeline though and it runs at a blazing 60 fps on my GeForce 2!

You sound bitter. In actuality, once the game is finished it will be extensively mod-able. Currently what you see is
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A public alpha. Which is hardly something to make judgements on as an end product. If you were to logically analyse it, then you should probably take a look at the amount of software development progress he has had in the last year (and the financial and popular success of the past 6 months.)

As for your game, I do hope it works out well for you!

Chris Katko: That image doesn't look very realistic to me, unless you'll stipulate you can build a brick house in low earth orbit.

MineCraft isn't modable? I swear I've seen a Portal mod for it where you can teleport between blue and orange blocks you make with a gun ....

You seem to take personally the fact that Notch hasn't made his game exactly as you want it. It's his game, he can make it however he likes. Lighten up, dude, and be happy with the awesome work you've done. Frankly, I'm impressed by your video, it's certainly more than I've ever done!

We're not complaining about your project. We're complaining about your complaining against Notch. Can't you just make your own game without ranting about his?

On the topic of games that are only one series, I would love to see a clone of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 open source and Linux friendly. Mostly because the original keeps crashing in wine and even though I've read claims there's a Linux version of it I just can't find the damn thing.

I dont hate notch, i hate the people who claim hes god etc and spam utube, e-mail, website

However i do agree Notch is not doing what he could be doing... Maybe he will get his act together soon enough and actually do what hes capable of doing.

I personally hope the client+server gets an SDK where can create full total conversions/mods whateva.

At the moment thats not possible and thats one reason im making my own game.