What do you get when people get tired of high definition, high resolution, extreme frame rates, super sampled textures, anti aliased, triple buffered, multi gigabyte games? Minecraft! This stone age game is taking the game industry by storm with its pixelated textures and simplistic objective. It all started with a free downloadable demo. The demo version of the game reached 4 million downloads! Gamers loved it! Then the developers started selling it at US$26.95. You don't have to be a math expert to add all the six zeroes. The website says they have 7,000,000 paid downloads already. This does not include iPhone and android sales.
This was a sideline programming project by one person only in 2009. Now it's continually polished by just a handful of developers.
The game recently launched on Xbox and sold 400,000 downloads in the first hour!
Search YouTube for minecraft and you'll see the enormous amount of videos created by its fans.
Don't forget about the 2D counterpart, Terraria. Too bad its development has been stopped now. (I'm still playing it from time to time though. >.<)
ReplyDeleteNot exactly Stone Age, only looks like it, because if the developers increased the graphics capacity this would require a computer not yet available today. Consider:
ReplyDelete1. there is a user whose sole dream is to get to the edge of the world in Minecraft. He walks everyday and measures his progress from the starting point.
2. there are a lot of users making use of the tools available in the game to create huge things, like portraits on the land.
3.Minecraft has multiplayer.