Mojang's 0x10c

ZacD

0x10c (Pronounced 10 to the c) is a sandbox-type science fiction game being developed by Mojang. So far features include a ship editor, fully working and programable virtual 16-bit computer. planned features include engineering, space battles, seamless space-to-planet transitions, mining and trading, laser guns, and an open universe with both single-player and multiplayer variants.

Basically to me it sounds like Minecraft in space, an extremely open game with lots of options for how to play the game. I'm excited to see how it turns out and I'm really enjoying the art work (by Eld) so far.

tottot

Fully programmable 16 bit computer? I feel like Im going to be too stupid to play this game

Will Faucher

All we have left to do is wait for someone to make a tron-inspired map.

ZacD

It actually sounds like its going to be easier to deal with than redstone, people are already creating tons of applications for it because the specs are released. It looks like people are going to write a bunch of cool uses for it and release them, but even in game they are going to come with code already on them.

oXYnary

With mine craft it was easy to keep a consistent style with aftermarket art and items.

How are they going to enforce this?

roosterMAP

this is looking cool. I love that style!

r_fletch_r

reminds me of system shock 2 (which is awesome!)
Looking forward to seeing how integrated the computer is, I loved redstone but it was so bloody flawed.

Paradan

looks like its using voxels or something. is it still block based like minecraft?

hope someone mods in Newtonian physics.

Dataday

Sounds somewhat close to a design I have been writing over the past few years, mainly in the ship building and usable computer meta interaction within a sand box world. I'm curious to see how this turns out (and or is received by the public).

McGreed

Yeah, I hope the system is more like how Redpower 2 mod is, gotta LOVE the redwires vs redstone.
I also wondering how much is randomly generated and how interaction with the space vs planets are going to be, is each planet going to be sort of a minecraft world, or are you just floating outside the planets?

eld

woah!

MrOneTwo

Programable computer ? ... you mean I can program a game in a gameeee ? ;p

Joshua Stubbles

MrOneTwo wrote: »

Programable computer ? ... you mean I can program a game in a gameeee ? ;p

The style looks great, eld. Great stuff so far.

McGreed

Shit, maybe that's what we need! Achivements in our programs! "Congratz! You created your first animation!", "Well done, your first mesh rendered without any problems!".

Zack Fowler

From all I've read up on it till now it sounded like something really interesting conceptually but not something I'd enjoy personally. Those screenshots have me seriously reconsidering that. Great stuff Eld.

Mcejn

Kickin butt, Eld !

Can't wait for a playable version.

CordellC

Looks like it's canned

Redditor Nouht was speaking to Notch in a Team Fortress 2 livestream, when the Minecraft creator said that he has no future aspirations for 0x10c, and that he will instead continue working on smaller games for the rest of his life. He did say that if someone else at the Mojang office wanted to pick up where he left off, that would be fine.

http://www.geek.com/games/notch-indefintely-shelves-mojangs-space-game-0x10c-1565266/

There's a team of fans trying to develop it on their own under a different name. Wonder how that will turn out.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/18/4633700/notch-puts-down-0x10c-fans-work-to-create-a-successor

Brandon.LaFrance

I am disappoint...

I was really excited for this game, I even began learning some of the basics of assembly in preparation for this games release. Hopefully someone else will pick up the torch.

maximumsproductions

Oh wow this sounded like it'd be fun. Like a more publicly accessible space-build from gmod.

Xoliul

oh snap! What's eld gonna do at Mojang now??? (lol )

DInusty

dang i was looking forward to it as well

eld

Xoliul wrote: »

oh snap! What's eld gonna do at Mojang now??? (lol )

I'm good here


Also, post from notch on the subject: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/58707926941/so-thats-what-im-going-to-do

Xoliul

I fully understand that, and it reflects what I thought a bit: "they might be showing this too early". I guess it just is really tempting for a smaller studio, that you own yourself, to show and tell about your new project quite soon, even if it's not far along yet. It just has the side effect of creating a lot of pressure and expectations to live up to.

Torch

Looks pretty fun, like the pixely style

xvampire

that suck, I love the art style and building space ship block by block has been my dream since childhood,

but oh well gotta deal with it,
at least got new lesson from Notch (again) "I want to do smaller games that can fail. I want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak."

ZacD

Hugh wrote: »

so who was the team that picked up the IP now? I saw somewhere the IP went to another team or something?

http://www.trillek.net/

eld

xvampire wrote: »

that suck, I love the art style and building space ship block by block has been my dream since childhood,

but oh well gotta deal with it,
at least got new lesson from Notch (again) "I want to do smaller games that can fail. I want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak."

Shipbuilding was going be more akin to substractive room-creation rather than placing blocks.

Hugh wrote: »

so who was the team that picked up the IP now? I saw somewhere the IP went to another team or something?

IP stays with mojang, any projects that wishes to do a clone of the project are both encouraged and on a legal basis allowed to do that given they don't use assets or names, you can't put a copyright on an idea