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Solve : Minecraft awarded GameCity videogame arts prize? |
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Answer» Minecraft is the winner of a new arts award for computer games. but I like sauerbraten better. You keep comparing them as if they are even similar in any way. They aren't. sauerbraten- from what I gathered before it crashed horribly- is basically just Quake III with a new editing feature. That's pretty much the jist of it. Considering every single open source FPS game is pretty much just Quake III all over again that should come as no surprise. Perhaps there is some complexity involved in the gameplay that allows opponents to build structures? I wasn't able to figure it out. At the very least if that feature exist it sure isn't very discoverable. Biggest point being that that game is a FPS game. Minecraft isn't an FPS game. PvP is not it's aim; it's a roguelike sandbox game. sauerbraten is a FPS games and, again, I still have no idea how you can even draw a loose parallel between them. Given that you've already tried to spread FUD in the manner of saying Minecraft was "inspired" by sauerbraten (which is pretty much the same as saying that Halo was inspired by Duke 3d; that is, it's an outright lie based on your own perception of a few similarities), I can't say I'm surprised. Quote Perhaps there is some complexity involved in the gameplay that allows opponents to build structures? I wasn't able to figure it out. At the very least if that feature exist it sure isn't very discoverable. You press E during the game to start building. You can build while your playing. For example, build a lava pit under your ENEMY before he kills you, etc. I like it because you can make whatever you want and don't need the materials to do it. Quote I still have no idea how you can even draw a loose parallel between them. It's because you are probably unaware of how you make cubes to build objects (press E to make stuff). If you played the game a bit more, then MAYBE you'd see the similarities. Quote Biggest point being that that game is a FPS game. Minecraft isn't an FPS game. That's not why I think they are similar. It's because you build out of cubes. Really man, you need to just give it a chance, before just dismissing me as an IDIOT.Basically: Start the game Press the tilda key for the console Type newmap 10 (Game loads) Press E key Select the ground with the mouse Roll the mouse wheel Make stuff ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToWQ5j21-j0 Quote from: Linux711 on November 04, 2011, 10:42:54 AM You press E during the game to start building.I figured that out already. actually I changed it to R. All it seemed to do was enable some sort of wireframe mode and noclip. Presumably I couldn't change anything as I was in some weird campaign mode thing, not sure. Quote For example, build a lava pit under your enemy before he kills you, etc. I like it because you can make whatever you want and don't need the materials to do it.So... it's Minecraft classic with a Quake III clone built on top of it? Quote It's because you are probably unaware of how you make cubes to build objects (press E to make stuff). If you played the game a bit more, then maybe you'd see the similarities.No, it's an FPS game. Super Mario is composed of blocks, but you don't see me pulling out false logic to compare Super Mario Brothers to Minecraft, or roblox, for that matter. Quote That's not why I think they are similar. It's because you build out of cubes.So that's it? it shares a single concept in common and uses it in a completely different genre and suddenly they are "similar"? That is like calling two games similar because they both have a mechanic of "HP"; it's a narrow view. Quote Really man, you need to just give it a chance, before just dismissing me as an idiot.No, I don't. and I didn't dismiss you as an idiot. I dismissed sauerbraten as YAQ3AC (Yet ANOTHER Quake III Arena Clone). Like all other Q3 Arena Clones (seems to be a personal favourite of OSS, probably because the Q3 engine is Open Source now) it adds a few gameplay mechanics but leaves the basic idea in. Novel? Yes. Did it inspire minecraft? *censored* no. That doesn't even make sense. Why would Markus attribute his idea to Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer and conveniently "forget" about Cube 2? Because he had never played it, evidently. My point is, it's a completely different game and any comparison between them is a false one. Quote So that's it? it shares a single concept in common and uses it in a completely different genre and suddenly they are "similar" Yes, because they are the only two games I can think of where you build out of 3D cubes. The fact that they are different genres doesn't matter because the 3D cubes part of it takes precedence. Quote from: Linux711 on November 04, 2011, 11:12:35 AM Yes, because they are the only two games I can think of where you build out of 3D cubes.I've bolded the key phrase.Ok, then tell me of some others like that. . . Quote from: Linux711 on November 04, 2011, 01:09:23 PM Ok, then tell me of some others like that. . .Roblox, Infiniminer, Blockland, Wurm online, Toadwater, Haven and Hearth, Ace of Spades, Blocks Online,Mars Miner,Mominer,Gold Well,The Lost Dutchman,Super Miner, Mother Load... Tetris 3d, Wetrix... |
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