Minecraft 1.0 released – Escaped Beta after 2 years [Video]

Its more that 2 years that Minecraft was released as Beta to the public and the development kept on progressing until the game had reached unthinkable heights with millions already joining in. Initially buggy version with giving less constructible options would allow building of alpha designs imitating creativity and unleashing designer out of you. And as you were in the process of creating tracks and ways the Beta arrived with further improvements in performance as well as features. It was a whole new experience as the Beta allowed creating even bigger sculptures and worlds. It was all followed by Minecraft Pocket Edition which extended all the goodies right under your fingertips and even before Sony Xperia Play 4G had featured Pocket release preinstalled.

Minecraft in the words of developers,

Origins
I started Minecraft after playing some Infiniminer with a couple of people from TigSource. I realized that a game that simple yet that dynamic had a lot of potential to turn into a really great game, and kept coming up with things I wanted to change and stuff I wanted to add.

I had recently quit my job as a game developer to be able to focus more on indie game dev during my free time, and I was looking for a new game to develop. I had a few ideas floating around, but most required really long development times.

These two factors led to Minecraft.

Development and philosophy

Waterfall is dead, long live agile!

I’ve got a few plans and visions, but my only true design decision is to keep it fun and accessible. There’s no design doc, but there are two lists; one for bugs, and one for features I want to add but think I might forget.

I make sure to play the game a lot, and I’ve built my share of towers, and flooded my share of caves. If something ever doesn’t feel fun, I’ll remove it. I believe that I can combine enough fun, accessibility and building blocks for this game to be a huge melting pot of emergent gameplay.

I strongly believe that all good stories have a conflict, and that all good games tell a good story regardless of if it’s pre-written or emergent. Free building mode is fine and dandy, but for many people it will ultimately become boring once you’ve got it figured out. It’s like playing a first person shooter in god mode, or giving yourself infinite funds in a strategy game.. a lack of challenge kills the fun.

For survival mode, I’d rather make the game too difficult than too easy. That also means I’m going to have to include some way of winning the game (or some other climax) to prevent it becoming too exhausting.

But if it’s no fun, I’ll redesign.

The future

I plan on developing Minecraft until it’s a finished complete game, with a downloadable client (with fullscreen mode), custom key re mappings and possibly modding support.

For as long as people enjoy and purchase the game, I will develop extensions after the game is done.

Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I’m not very happy with the draconian nature of (L)GPL, nor do I believe the other licenses have much merit other than to boost the egos of the original authors, so I might just possibly release it all as public domain.

Sneak preview Minecraft in video below,

Source Minecraft

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