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[Ricky]

So scouring the internet in my daily crusades, I stumbled upon an interesting Mincraft-esque game. I havent personally played it, but from what i can see it is quite the improvement from regular [REDACTED]. From what I've read its currently in open beta, but available for purchase for 12$ which, like minecraft, allows you to save your progress opposed to just sandboxy playaround.

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Sorry for not having more information, but I've got pictures, so that's close enough.

[Girlinhat]

New game.  Compare it to Minecraft.  What could possibly go wrong?

[alamoes]

Let the citiscism begin 

[Flying Dice]

If we're going to compare it to Minecraft, I'll start by saying that it looks much nicer. Cue "OMG grafix dun men anythin-" I know. Those screenshots tell us nothing about how it plays. But even if it ends up being MC with slopes and prettier landscapes, that'll be enough to interest me.

[Alkhemia]

It look to be better at least with building stuff lot more options I just hope it doesn't use Java

[Rex_Nex]

Yea, I do wish Minecraft looked like this. It looks good.

[Sowelu]

I see it and immediately want to start building the Shire.

This bodes well.

[Briggsy16]

Notch tweeted about this saying how great it looked, fyi.

[etgfrog]

it looks like its block based, there is a block counter at the bottom...minecraft made it a self meme that everything was made out of blocks...dont see why your so worried about comparing what looks to be a better looking version of minecraft to minecraft...who knows...maybe this will be made better and not rely on mods to work right...regardless, there will be people who will rage that its copying minecraft no mater how it looks, i've even seen people saying inferminator(sp) copied minecraft...

[Skyrunner]

Huh... to me, it seems like the game's graphics can't decide between voxels (not sure if exact term xD) and blocks >.>  Like, part of the hill is smooth, but the sides are blocky.

It still bodes well.

[Peewee]

Huh... to me, it seems like the game's graphics can't decide between voxels (not sure if exact term xD) and blocks >.>  Like, part of the hill is smooth, but the sides are blocky.

Looks to me like it's supposed to be kind of smooth, but it has badly implemented shadows. Still, posting to watch.

[Skyrunner]

Huh... to me, it seems like the game's graphics can't decide between voxels (not sure if exact term xD) and blocks >.>  Like, part of the hill is smooth, but the sides are blocky.

Looks to me like it's supposed to be kind of smooth, but it has badly implemented shadows. Still, posting to watch.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[TheBronzePickle]

It has a few issues ATM, mainly there being a 'shadow' of any underwater terrain projected over the water, or in some cases land. Nothing like a black void hovering over an island for no good reason.

[Sowelu]

Minecraft is voxels with a blocky style (the most obvious and simple one).

This is voxels with a more smooth style.  They represent the same data, but present it differently.

If you were super hardcore, you could mod Minecraft to look kinda-sorta-maybe like this.

[Vertigon]

Notch tweeted about this saying how great it looked, fyi.

Ugh. Anytime Notch tweets about a game, the rabid fan part of the MC community jumps all over it, whether to tear it apart or just make the community worse via their presence.