...but while playing bioshock i always thought: "bah... now i have to run around in those stupid corridors again for 2 hours before i see how the story continues." i think i would have prefered a good movie about it.

Well would you prefer some reaction tests in corridor fights of Bioshock the game or watching Bioshock directed by Uwe Boll?

Seems to have been a good choice not to buy Bioshock. I wasn't that much impressed by what I saw from it and now am even less...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMTedT6P0I
This is a really nice fan-made trailer for Minecraft.

And here's a pretty cool article hinting towards how successful Minecraft is:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.231499-PayPal-Freezes-750K-in-MineCraft-Devs-Account

And then this is just hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjSWPxJxNs&feature=player_embedded

Jibb

Very cool gameconcept.

The reason why minecraft is so popular is probably
the simple idea for everyone to be able to build cool 3D objects, use them and show it to others.
The other are the athmosphere and exploration.

There are a lot of possibilities to build up on that,
Also by adding more mission-based objectives into it.
Like: "Next Mission: inspect the cave in the north-east and
fine the diamonds" Or: "Stay at position x,y for one night, and
fight off the monsters"

...
I've spent several hours on my Minecraft world, upgraded my items and my character with diamond tools and weapons and I collected tons of red-dust.
Then I accidently fell in lava, I got out of it with 4 hearts (and armor) left but I still died.
Now everything, my inventory was completely full, is gone... THAT is frustrating as hell.

I played it in the browser for about an hour and I am now going to buy it, also because I think if you want support for your indie game you have to buy others aswell. And i like the graphic, the sound and so on

That guy who develops it made probably a million Euros within the last months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
Its quite a success story.

For sure! He has stats on his site.
http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp

At 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

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.

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.