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[Urist McScoopbeard]

I can sympathize with Notch on this one. The project seemed obscenely huge in scope and the expectations that he found put upon himself must of been insane.

To many fans, they perceive him as now having an infinite budget and would have been really annoying every time they had to reign in the scope a bit.

He should have kept it quiet then, until he could decide whether he would continue to develop it or shelf it, instead he pretty much said "hey guys look at this game I just thought of, it's amazing and i'm making it right now!"

[Krevsin]

I won't delve into the whole "Notch is a bad developer" discussion because that is prone to causing outbreaks of !!FUN!!, but the community has picked up the idea of 0x10c and has started to develop it under their own name and without using 0x10c's source code.

It's called Project Trillek. Horrible name, but I like that the idea carries on. Here's their forum. I am relatively optimistic about it.

[Moghjubar]

The 'community' is what made minecraft a great game, with taking a mostly shallow dig and build thing and doing insane things modding it.  I'm assuming this is just Notch's plan now: build the 'shell' of the game he wants to play and crowdsource it.

[Grakelin]

It's not like we can pretend Notch is the be-all, end-all of game devs. He got insanely lucky with Minecraft, which was openly derivative of various other games. Now he has a massive personal bank account, which I imagine actually puts strain on his ability to produce new and interesting content.

I don't believe it's anybody's fault but his own that this has failed for him, though. I haven't been doing the blog-crawling and information gathering that some people have, but this didn't seem all that huge in scope. Everything that people think about when they think of this game has been done somewhere else by somebody else already. At the indie scale, he should be able to produce anything he wants, since the usual blockages of "need time to make money" or "need somebody to help me out with these resources" have been cleared. Short of producing AAA titles, his failures are now based on either laziness or a lack of fleshed out vision.

[Zyxl]

Notch gets a fucking BBC article? Seriously?

AND the fans pick up his failed project?

May I remind you all Corneroids is still sitting abandoned? Mikko Pulkki got hired as a developer just after the last status update on Corneroids. He was grooming Corneroids for his resume. At least judging from his LinkedIn account.

It's safe to assume it's completely abandoned. You see what I'm getting at?

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Who the fuck am I kidding. Notch could fail to wipe his ass and his fanbase would finish it for him. Meanwhile what I think is a better game than anything Notch has put out to date will be forgotten.

Some times I really really really regret ditching the CS/Programming career path back in HighSchool.

[miauw62]

Boohoo the community doesn't do what I want it to.

[Zyxl]

Boohoo the community doesn't do what I want it to.

Seriously? Up yours.

I'm genuinely pissed about this and you'll find the remainders of the Corneroids crew on chan are as well. There was a fair-sized Corneroids community between the three major groups of 4chan, Bay12, and Facepunch with other smaller groups and an unofficial forum. I've seen projects with smaller fanbases than this get salvaged by said fans.

The Corneroids community disintegrated sitting around waiting on the promise that Mikko didn't abandon it. /vg/ and a russian community were already working on modifying the executable to inject new code with talk of splitting off their own development of it. There was a nice proof of concept with the radar mod.

Now because of shit luck and no one wanting to make a move while Mikko might resume development, the whole damned thing just blew away in the wind. Even the official Facebook page has announced it's abandoned.

Yet there's not quite enough people left to salvage it. Meanwhile Notch, a man I consider to be a plague on Indie games and the herald of bad programmers, not being able to fart without the world stopping to finish his work for him JUST because of his name attached is bloody insulting while this happens.

[ank]

Somebody really needs to go to their happy place and pet their power animal for a bit....

[Tellemurius]

He has a point, Minecraft patches aren't even done by the man now just some bunch of peons that make some changes here and there and just piss people off every release as it breaks mods. Corneroids is worse since Mikko even opened up donations to help him dev the damn game he just runs off.

[Scelly9]

I feel kinda bad for Notch. He got too damn lucky with Minecraft, and if he ever releases anything else, he'll be destroyed by the community because it won't live up to the minecraft level of success.

[Tellemurius]

I feel kinda bad for Notch. He got too damn lucky with Minecraft, and if he ever releases anything else, he'll be destroyed by the community because it won't live up to the minecraft level of success.

Hes probably just making sure Scrolls get successful and make bank on mobile markets.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Boohoo the community doesn't do what I want it to.

Seriously? Up yours.

Take it down a notch, guy (terrible pun intended).

and yes Scelly I think you are entirely right.

[TripJack]

I feel kinda bad for Notch. He got too damn lucky with Minecraft, and if he ever releases anything else, he'll be destroyed by the community because it won't live up to the minecraft level of success.

you feel kinda bad for a guy with a hundred million dollars in the bank because some people on the internet might say bad things about him and his games?

makes sense

[Tellemurius]

I feel kinda bad for Notch. He got too damn lucky with Minecraft, and if he ever releases anything else, he'll be destroyed by the community because it won't live up to the minecraft level of success.

you feel kinda bad for a guy with a hundred million dollars in the bank because some people on the internet might say bad things about him and his games?

makes sense

He takes the criticism well better than other indie devs *cough*Fez*cough*

[Scelly9]

I feel kinda bad for Notch. He got too damn lucky with Minecraft, and if he ever releases anything else, he'll be destroyed by the community because it won't live up to the minecraft level of success.

you feel kinda bad for a guy with a hundred million dollars in the bank because some people on the internet might say bad things about him and his games?

makes sense

Money ain't the only thing in the world. And people on the internet can be hurtful, even if you've never met them. So yes, it does make sense.