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Re: Let's Play Minecraft!
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09/28/10 13:15
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Its quite a success story. For sure! He has stats on his site. http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jspAt 10 Euros a pop, he's made 2 566 780 Euros on that game, 65 140 of which was in the last 24 hours (at time of writing). Lately it has been accelerating. Yesterday he had made more than 80k in the previous 24 hours, but a lot of server downtime last night probably affected the night's sales. Also, he developed it for about a week before it was publicly available in its first form (albeit free and much simpler). In regards to that 600k at the end of the Wikipedia article that Paypal had frozen -- people were wondering why he left so much in his Paypal account, but he responded was emptying it every week, and sales had just spiked. Where's our community's success story like that!? Jibb
Formerly known as JulzMighty. I made KarBOOM!
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Re: Let's Play Minecraft!
[Re: JibbSmart]
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09/28/10 13:24
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he gets massive amounts of pr at the moment. it gets featured everywhere (slashdot, arstechnica,...). the paypal story sucks. do you think a game like that could be done with gamestudio with some tricks? there would be entity overload. it's written in java and to me it doesn't look like it uses opengl but a software renderer.
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Re: Let's Play Minecraft!
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09/28/10 16:39
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This is a very custom rendering procedure. I doubt gamestudio could handle these amount of blocks with the starndard system. Would need a custom renderer and scene-system. Bought the game too I rather throw the money at an indys success story, than to a lame commercial studio. Poor guy, in Sweden he has to probably give 50% of the income back to the goverment.
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