Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

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Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by BigBiker05 » Tue May 17, 2011 7:13 pm

It seems to me from watching he trailer they were like, "Minecraft, cool game, it sells, I'ma make it into a side scroller"

http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/

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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by Fizbon666 » Tue May 17, 2011 8:29 pm

Lol, that's almost exactly what I thought when I saw it.

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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by Soup Nazi » Tue May 17, 2011 9:07 pm

same here
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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by unknown » Tue May 17, 2011 9:12 pm

wow that is totally a rip of minecraft
i mean any game that has a pickaxe and dungeons = a minecraft ripoff

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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by Tungsten » Tue May 17, 2011 11:11 pm

No, this is a Minecraft rip.

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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by Buzzy Beetle » Tue May 17, 2011 11:12 pm

Oh, so you mean like how Minecraft is an Infiniminer rip off? Or how aspects of Dwarf Fortress were taken and implemented into Minecraft?

Original ideas are exceedingly few and far between these days; I hate to break it to you but Minecraft is not one of them. It's just the one you heard of first.

That out of the way, it is very likely that Re-Logic drew inspiration from Minecraft. At the same time, there is a heavy drawing from SNES Metrovania games with art that reminds me of SNES RPGs and holds them all in balance. I bought it and I plan to get more amusement out of it in the future as I have only scratched the surface of what I can do in it with the short time I have played.

In the future, please do not be so quick to dismiss new games of being rip-offs, especially Indie games. Give them a chance and they may surprise you; Indie developers that last have a habit of caring about their games.
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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by BigBiker05 » Tue May 17, 2011 11:17 pm

Buzzy Beetle wrote: Original ideas are exceedingly few and far between these days; I hate to break it to you but Minecraft is not one of them. It's just the one you heard of first.
And my life got flipped turned upside down...


Wow, that fortresscraft looks like a skin pack for minecraft.

So what did minecraft do right that infiniminer didn't do to get the popular it needed to excel in the indie world? And dwarf fortress actually has a bit of a difference right?

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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by Buzzy Beetle » Tue May 17, 2011 11:21 pm

BigBiker05 wrote: So what did minecraft do right that infiniminer didn't do to get the popular it needed to excel in the indie world? And dwarf fortress actually has a bit of a difference right?
Infiniminer was along the competitive lines of "go down, mine valuable ores, bring them back to the surface to get points for your team" but what eventually happened was that people were having much more fun building stuff than competing for points. Notch started working on Minecraft after Infiniminer was discontinued (also, some other unsavory things happened to the Infiniminer source code during this time), and the rest is history.

As for Dorf Fortress, it is a very different game. I don't recall all the ideas that Notch borrowed from it; I can remember Biomes off the top of my head.
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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by BigBiker05 » Tue May 17, 2011 11:23 pm

Buzzy Beetle wrote:
BigBiker05 wrote: So what did minecraft do right that infiniminer didn't do to get the popular it needed to excel in the indie world? And dwarf fortress actually has a bit of a difference right?
Infiniminer was along the competitive lines of "go down, mine valuable ores, bring them back to the surface to get points for your team" but what eventually happened was that people were having much more fun building stuff than competing for points. Notch started working on Minecraft after Infiniminer was discontinued, the rest is history.
And deep inside minecraft there is a point system! Thats funy! Now then could we link this all to that super old video game where you dug side scroll tunnels for points and had to bring them back to the surface?

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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by THE Flying chihuahua » Tue May 17, 2011 11:30 pm

Reminds me of everyone calling old FPS's DOOM clones.
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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by BigBiker05 » Fri May 27, 2011 11:59 am

I'm finding myself keep having to post this in other forums and community sites:
Minecraft is a rip of Infiniminer when it got discontinued. Infiniminer since then has been recontinued:
http://thesiteformerlyknownas.zachtroni ... com/?p=713

Terraria is a rip of OpenClonks when it got discontinued. Openclonks since then has been recontinued:
http://www.openclonk.org/

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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by Fraulein Arztin » Fri May 27, 2011 1:02 pm

I guess so.....
Before minecraft, I thought of pickaxes and those types of tools from RuneScape...
I played that a long long long time ago...
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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by BigBiker05 » Fri May 27, 2011 1:03 pm

After what I'm hearing, terraria is probably closer to runescape than minecraft. The whole loot and mobs dropping loot thing makes it an RPG while minecraft is just a sandbox.

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Re: Anyone else think this is a minecraft rip?

Post by Fraulein Arztin » Fri May 27, 2011 1:06 pm

BigBiker05 wrote:After what I'm hearing, terraria is probably closer to runescape than minecraft. The whole loot and mobs dropping loot thing makes it an RPG while minecraft is just a sandbox.
Agreed.
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