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http://www.fortresscraft.com/
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Produc...0258550821
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Wow... And facepalm.png @ "copyright projectorgames" Can't wait until Mojang sues these guys. It's not like it was "inspired by minecraft", they basically copied the whole damn code, added in some decent texture pack and altered some codelines a bit.
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so:
copy minecraft
add custom skin
????
profit!
it seems
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[COLOR="green"]Gotta admit, I think that's a bit too much like the original game to be toted as an entirely different game for sale. He definitely buffed the grapics and added some interesting things, but it seems more like a mod than anything else.
According to this thread however, it seems like the guy isn't that much of an pimento.[/COLOR]
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Honestly, I thought the official screenshots were done in Minecraft texture packs.
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That was quite pathetic, to be honest.
Minecraft's style is so perfect because of the blocky/pixeled everything. Putting stuff that looks like "OMG HD" just takes ALL the feel out.
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He said he named it Fortresscraft because he wanted to combine Minecraft with Dwarf Fortress. And Dwarf Fortress was the main inspiration behind Minecraft, so he's combining Dwarf Fortress with Dwarf Fortress.
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DualReaver Wrote:He said he named it Fortresscraft because he wanted to combine Minecraft with Dwarf Fortress. And Dwarf Fortress was the main inspiration behind Minecraft, so he's combining Dwarf Fortress with Dwarf Fortress.
I'd say nope.
You play as one character. You have purely decorative stuff. You can place stuff from a long distance, according to that. It shows practically what Minecraft is, but less restrictive. Stuff that seems to look like dwarf Fortress is also in Minecraft.
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DualReaver Wrote:He said he named it Fortresscraft because he wanted to combine Minecraft with Dwarf Fortress. And Dwarf Fortress was the main inspiration behind Minecraft, so he's combining Dwarf Fortress with Dwarf Fortress. He's just trying to find loopholes to justify his actions. In reality though, this game has everything minecraft has, but nothing that minecraft doesn't have (outside characters and different skins). It does not matter whether he "started to plan this game" before minecraft, because obviously he couldn't pull off a notch and come up with all those good ideas.
He's a thief. Just watch, the new updates will all be just the updates MC gets, I don't think he will be able to come up with actual own ideas.
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I will laugh so hard at the enormous lawsuit this guy will have to deal with.
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ITT: Games that might be considered similar to Minecraft?
Alloy Wrote:That was quite pathetic, to be honest.
Minecraft's style is so perfect because of the blocky/pixeled everything. Putting stuff that looks like "OMG HD" just takes ALL the feel out.
Well, it worked out good enough for 3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3 action-adventure game).
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^ Terraria looks like SO MUCH FUN! The creators have been doing a ton of gameplay videos. No word on a release date or pricing yet, though.
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I probably should have pointed this out earlier, Minecraft is based on a game called Infiniminer. I don't think Notch would bother to do something about this game or any other game like it.
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Herbert Jablonski Wrote:ITT: Games that might be considered similar to Minecraft?
Well, it worked out good enough for 3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3 action-adventure game).
Well, Terraria looks quite interesting, and while it has the same basis, it DID reach an awesome final and different result.
As for that poxel game, I'd say it's the BEST attempt at HD pixels I've ever seen. The little squares turning into little cubes was just the natural evolution of it.
Herbert Jablonski Wrote:I probably should have pointed this out earlier, Minecraft is based on a game called Infiniminer. I don't think Notch would bother to do something about this game or any other game like it.
However, infiniminer was an actual inspiration. Both games play totally different. Block placing was just VERY restricted, and only for useful means, and from only one class. The rest of the game was digging, mainly, no creativity, or stuff like that. It's hard to draw a line, but yeah.
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FortressCraft isn't exactly news though, I bought it on xbox live at least a few weeks ago. i really don't think he could be sued either unless it was the code was just backwards engineered and converted to XNA. plus it's not like they just copied minecraft feature for feature, the game is only in essence creative mode. it's a WIP project, so honestly minecraft and fortresscraft just have similar roots, considering that even though the game doesn't have dwarf fortress like aspects yet, it's planned. so it's like minecraft and fortresscraft both had a basic creative mode. but where minecraft focused on gathering and surviving, fortresscraft is going to go in a different direction, with resourcing, macromanagement done by ai (or manually), and vehicles. it's easy to pass it off as a minecraft clone, but once you play it, you start seeing how different it really is
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