Watch the Creator of Minecraft Write a Game From Scratch
The creator of Minecraft, known as “Notch”, is taking part in Ludum Dare, which is a game competition in which participants have forty-eight hours to create a game from scratch. Notch is streaming his screen for the entire duration of the competition, and I find this absolutely fascinating.
Take a look at the stream (13,000 viewers right now) and you will see Eclipse, Java and… well, how to write a game. I checked an hour ago and since then, he’s added walls to what is beginning to look like a maze.
I don’t know what’s the most riveting: hearing him brainstorm with himself (probably for the benefit of his 12,000 viewers, but maybe that’s what just how he codes) or having his game run continually in the background and update itself as he makes the changes. I use Eclipse’s hot replace all the time, but seeing it apply to write a game is… mesmerizing.
Update 1: Notch stopped the stream because it was too expensive, he’s looking for alternatives
Update 2: New stream here.
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Comments
Mike P(Okidoky) replied on Tue, 2011/08/23 - 1:38pm
Mike P(Okidoky) replied on Tue, 2011/08/23 - 2:11pm
Funny how he tends to declare fields public in low level objects like Sprite and Block. Kind of the notion of a struct. I wonder if he was used to straight C before Java.
ps. When you say "hot replace", you mean JRebel, not hot swap, right?
ps2. how does one delete messages on JL/DZ? It's also threatening to call me a spammer...