Thoughts about open source Minecraft alternatives?
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Let's just say its more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes, even if we all pooled our money together. Well, except for me. I'll have enough money to buy the skull of Steve Jobs and turn it into a decorative cereal bowl.
1. How much would that cost.
2. How the hell would you get so much using legal means.
Oh, I know. My mother has had an unfortunate amount of experience in this area.
Hey, that was my lunch.
edit: didn't even have money for bread
Well, shit, dude, I'll give ya some nachos. The cheese is only a day old, but a quick bit in the microwave should make it perfect again.
It all depends on whether Jobs decides to donate his corpse to "science". I'm sure a big enough "Donation" to a medical institution could facilitate a specific skull going missing.
That said, knowing what I know about Jobs..... I don't imagining him donating.
I'm not going to go as far as to say that this is a Minecraft alternative yet, but my brother has been enjoying it a bit: https://saltthegame.com/
It's written in Unity with C#, by the look of it.
It's written in Unity with C#, by the look of it.
Oh sorry, you're right. Forgot that the topic was about open-source ones specifically. I saw that it was C# and immediately thought moddable since that language is similar to Java in regards to decompilation. I already saw part of the code just when using ILSpy on it, even.
Making mods for a proprietary product is gifting them to that product's owner in hope that he will let others play with this mod too. Until he decides that he would rather change product, or sell it, or stop supporting it, burying all the hard work of modders.
Remember that Minecraft is also proprietary -- and has been this whole time. It's about licensing and permissions. If Notch hadn't started selling access to the game, would we all have bought into it? Only by having it in places people go to purchase games do most people realize it's available for purchase; the media are simply a bonus. There are similar games (Blockland, Sauerbraten) where you can build the map while you're in it, but they aren't really for sale and their popularity seems minimal. And I don't know why.
Maybe it was the game types? The interface? Maybe how the GUIs were designed? Maybe the block textures? Probably it was because someone popular decided to make a Let's Play. I'm not entirely sure.
But I do know that for whatever reason, it is rare for Open Source software to get really popular with the public. So if we do this, we need to do it right. We need publicity, as well as a good (intuitive, useable) interface. And we need decent-enough textures to attract texture artists for it. We need... well, Minecraft.
Crud. This is going in circles. I hope MS takes a higher road instead of an acquisitional approach to mods, and lets us keep playing with the internals.