Notch Has A New Indie Game! (Minecraft Creator)
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- Notch has a new game, and I have a lot to say about it....
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Notch can get away a lot of stuff most people can't when making a game. One he skill programmer. Plus a billion dollars helps a lot.
Hell no Notch is an awful person
why,
Buying a mansion in la was the problem. He should have bought a castle.
Shoulda built a castle
@@AutisticSpooder This joke isn't getting the amount of likes it should be getting....
So true
He should’ve bought a cave to explore
You know what they say if you already have a castle at home why leave for a mansion in LA? I mean nobody wants you there so why would you even put in the hard HARD work into this... maybe so you can return back where you came from to buy a castle in the place that even there you won't be accepted anymore. So why not go to LA and then go to AL (Angeles Los).
It's well-documented that Notch was inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer for Minecraft. Dwarf Fortress does the procedural world generation thing, and Infiniminer the mining/additive/subtractive voxel interaction mechanics. It was simple inspiration from a couple of sources and combining them. That coupled with the soundtrack, simple graphical texture style and the variety of interesting mobs early on were what made it interesting. Multiplayer and community creativity is what made it stick.
Exactly. Notch isn't wholly responsible for the creation of Minecraft, but he did play a big role in the game we love, and it wouldn't exist without him.
I also really hope C418 joins Bitshift Entertainment. I miss that guy, and to me he's just as big a part of Minecraft's identity as Notch, maybe even more.
'inspired by infiniminer' is a stretch. At best, minecraft was a clone. At worst, notch is a thief and the theft caused the infiniminer developer to give up on the project (because people were stealing the decompile source code - after 1 month of development).
In one of the first youtube videos notch put up about 'cave game', was "This is a very early test of an Infiniminer clone I'm working on. It will have more resource management and materials, if I ever get around to finishing it." --- original was deleted, but an archived version can be found here: watch?v=UMpv5kZ9-rE
I just think it's crazy that Minecraft was inspired by a game made by Zachtronics which went on to make some of my favourite puzzle games
@@Protofall You're wrong. If it wasn't for Notch's idea and programming everything from scratch we wouldn't even know about C418. C418 sound design work on the game doesn't even come close to Notch's influence or mc identity as you say. Tired of people putting so much value on music and the brainwashing by nostalgia and not thanking the actual developer who made it possible.
@@hecticbeatzz5628 Sorry, I didn't word that the best. Notch's role in Minecraft's development was so big, the game literally would not exist without him. I am thankful for the work he did, and am looking forward to his new project, even if no one else from Minecraft's development team joins him.
He isn't the whole identify of Minecraft of course, others like C418, Dinnerbone, Jeb, etc played big roles too. But Notch was the one to bring together elements of Dwarf Fortress, Infiniminer and "Ruby Dung" into something amazing. That success led the other devs to join Notch.
I just like giving credit where its due. Even though Notch is the core person, I still like to thank other people who made Minecraft what it is, as well as games that inspired it.
Title starts at 4:00
Thanks Man
Thanks sooo much, too much yappin
When the intro is longer than the video, and then the video poetically cuts off right before the 8:00 mark, why yap anyways at that point
thanks mate
@@lirich0 just enjoy the video.
Minecraft was originally inspired by a game called Infiniminer by Zach Barth (Zachtronics). So the idea wasn't completely original.
It's also literally just legos
@@Jay-og4ybthat’s disingenuous
@@cjeff99 it is...
True. Every game is pretty much like this. Inspired off another, or multiple games.
@@Jay-og4yb if it was “literally just legos” I definitely wouldn’t have spent years playing it a decade ago
“Money makes the miserable parts of life a little bit less miserable.”
Wise words
i thought you said monkey for a second
@@BasementStudi0sThat too
@@BasementStudi0s money can buy you monkeys which can make life better
money does buy happiness
more money = more monkey = more happy
@@BasementStudi0s monkey makes everything better
bro if I release a game and it makes me 2.5 billion there is no way in hell that would stop me from making games. There is a whole library of out of scope projects I am never going to be able to achieve as a small solo dev and the only thing holding me back is money
Yeah I think the thing he experienced was because he sold it. He put his heart, soul, time, effort, love, sweat, and tears into something, and then sold it and was thus barred from developing it anymore. Like to me that seems totally understandable why he would feel depressed after selling minecraft.
Well... that's you.
These are interesting perspectives on the subject :D
then you are bloody greedy, why would u need more money after 2,5 billion?
@@Robin-oh3zh It's not just about earning profits; it's about crafting quality games that can transform the industry.
If making money is your sole aim in creating games, then you're missing the point.
Minecraft was one of my first games as a kid and I always wondered if Notch was going to create another awesome game. I hope this new game is something we will be talking about for a long time.
Probably not. Always company or people get that one successful idea and then, have no ability to replicate that success again. Rovio only got Angry Birds and then nothing new was even remotely as successful. Sybo got Sibway Surfers and nothing new was even remotely as successful. I think we can continue the list. I don't say it's impossible but, as stats show, such megasuccess comes from being megalucky, and that's why it never repeats with one person. Toby Fox tried to do that, but... who am I kidding, Deltarune always felts like Undertale's spin-off with the same feeling, so it can't be really called as something new
@@user-id3fc8qs7y True, looking for main comments saying this but found it as a reply. I think only in music you can get away with it the longest but even that wont last forever, Akon, Soulja Boy, Lady Gaga Nicki Minaj, someone else is now on the top monthly charts.
Games loyalty is very sensitive and volatile, what will he do/create when he sold off the rights? It's like the creators of Left for Dead 2 trying bring back it's fans for a game it sold its rights to Valve and expect people would like his spinoff w/out the rights of the OG game that people love. If they're not loyal to their games, don't expect people would be either.
2:28 Yeah, for me too. Would never buy such a massive house to live there alone because the emptiness of big house is always very depressing
Yeah same. Especially to live there all alone, it would get so lonely. If I had that amount of money honestly, I would buy a nice little cottage or treehouse in the mountains (always dreamt of it) and reinvest the rest of the money into making better and cooler games.
Funny enough, I find myself feeling that way even in minecraft. I took over a woodland mansion, thinking I might move in, but I quickly realized I'm happier in my little cabin up on the mountain nearby. So I stayed put.
One advantage of building an engine from scratch is that you gain more insight into how it all fits together, how every minute detail works.
So even if it is much more primitive than modern ones like Unreal, you know the full extent of its features and adding new features means you are forced to learn them deeply instead of just turning on or off buttons. And with that further insight it becomes easier predicting or using features in other engines, so as a side project it is definitly a good exercise as it rounds you off.
For Notch, having that amount of control over his engine makes it easier to implement his artistic ideas as an integral part of the graphics, instead of chaining a bunch of customizable options.
Thought it was well known by now that Minecraft was based on Infiniminer. No Minecraft didn't create the concept of placing and destroying blocks.
If youre a coder who followed indie games, and the bedroom coder during the 90s until the big boom.
You'll understand how Notch thinks, this is totally how coders who love roguelike (nethack, angband, dwarf fortress) in an era where consumer engines doesnt exists would want to make and are used to making their games.
He just really enjoys it making it in this way, and as someone who feels the same (and is technically doing the same process) I really love seeing this and the oldschool feeling he gives.
Notch's idea of placing and breaking blocks was not completely unheard of at the time... He took that idea from Infiniminer
5:09 WHAT, i believe making your own engine makes game development more exciting actually
Finally getting to use the math you learn at school to do cool techniques is very fun to do and possibly as an exercise to understand some fundamental concepts on how to write performant code
I agree
It probably depends on the end goal I think
Is your goal to make 0 to steam as fast as possible, or
Is your goal to learn(and make) the core technology of video games?
The thing is, unless you absolutely need to create a new engine with features that doesnt already exists in other engines, there is no point doing it. Unless you are doing it as a learning experience. A nice example of this will be the game Noita. That game manages physics for every single pixel in the screen, there were no engines that could achieve that easily so the developers had to create their own.
Everyone romanticizes on making your own game engine but no one does.
It is a super fun exercise but not good advice for someone who actually wants to seriously make a game.
You're just reinventing a wheel that has been invented much better before. Invest your energy into making the unique part of your game, not the wheel.
Notch's story: *Tune from Jungle Book Song I Wanna Be Like You* "I've reached the top and had to stop and that's what's bothering me!"
But now
Now that's he's free from his shackles of depression and corporate life, he can start back from the bottom and work himself back to the top.
Being the very best isn't always good. It means no one can surpass you, no one can stand up to you.
And that's just no fun.
Great last words about the fact that creating my game is probably the most fun things will get for me. I actually don't mind that. Not at all.
you did no research for the minecraft portion lol
I find great irony that Notch was wasting his time with the Hollywood elite. Probably more than any other game, Minecraft spanned the generations and brought children closer to their parents and families. Can't measure that kind of societal impact with Microsoft's billions.
I'm pretty sure that Minecraft is respected enough as a game that you don't need to embellish its genius by pretending that its mechanics weren't inspired by other games like Infiniminer.
I think the problem with getting rich is people want a life style from it. They want the money to automatically solve their problems when their deeper issues are not money related. Money doesn't buy happiness but it gets rid of the stresses that come from needing money. You will always have food, water and a roof over your head. You won't need to do a job you hate. You have the freedom to do anything. But the more options you have, the harder it is to choose. A lot of artists can relate to this. We have millions of ideas but only enough time on this planet to create a certain amount of those ideas.
Point I am making is have a family, make real friends and cherish the people around you. Humans are social creatures and we need companionship like a lot of mammal on this planet. Money is great but it really shouldn't change how you live your life too much.
But I too am glad he has found his way again and is making games again. We should all enjoy making games at the very least. Cuz at the end of the day, that is the point of video games. Enjoyment.
If someone said 'Mincraft 2', I'd picture what I see in these screenshots. Honestly, I think it's quite smart to tap into the Minecraft gimmick (at least in terms of visuals). But glad to see him back creating. I followed him for a while on social media after the MS purchase. He didn't seem happy, to say the least.
7:19 This is a beautiful message and notch's story teaches us that this is indeed the case.
Oh yeah Notch has such a tragic story.. Cant imagine how tough he had it getting that 2.5b xD
Is it really worth it if nobody is your friend?
@@fireninja8250 Getting there takes a lot of hours man.. lot of work. Lot of sleepless nights. He didnt have friends before either xD
Studies showed happiness and money followed a bell curve. When you're poor you're less happy, and you become happier on average with getting more money... To a point. And then there's more responsabilities, you become isolated from the rest of society, and then the richest start being less and less happy after that.
@@jeanladoire4141 interresting.. And it makes sense I guess depending on how you get your money. Like if you just sell a product 2 billion then you're free to do whatever, but if you loan and get a business then i can understand why you'd be less happy because of pressure.
Can’t imagine how hard he had it when he spewed hate speech
The idea of building blocks was taken from another developer. I remeber seeing the other game that looked even worse than an early Minecraft, so I'm glad Notch saw a potential and polished this idea into an amazing game
infiniminer
@@danke1150 that's the one, thanks
Agreed
I'm pretty sure I would be okay living in that house.
Damn. I paid 26 bucks to an anti semetic in 2011. At least he’s still lonely.
With that money I'd use it to start an entirely new project exactly according to what I dream
A Bit Shift is an optimization trick that is top-notch. He probably wants to make a fully optimized game with a proper programming language, using all the most advanced tricks he can to make it run smoothly.
No
5:07 Here's a little secret that a lot of devs don't know about creating your own engine. It's always unique which makes it so charming. And even though custom engines are usually less refined, that jank really adds to the charm.
He is the true embodiment of what it means to be a programmer. We are way better off and happier living in a one room apartment programming all day and smashing our heads worrying about nasty bugs than live in a mansion. He got a little bit corrupt, ig, for a few years but now he got back his soul(or so I think)
Real Happiness is inside us (that's one of the main Buddha's teachings).
That's why many rich and famous people have gotten depressed and even committed suicide: if you expect to find happiness in fame and money, and then you get those things but don't bring any happiness, you would immediately ask yourself: is this ALL that Life has to offer??? And that's when depression hits hard... There's a phenomenon called "the dark night of the Soul", which is basically that. It is said that you overcome that sudden depression and sadness by practicing Meditation and learning to be more a more Spiritual person (i.e.: less Materialistic)... The upside is that you'll end up like Keanu Reeves, or Jim Carrey: with lots of money and also the Spiritual knowledge to survive in any situation, been rich or even if you loose it all (becoming poor).
He says, don't do this thing. But when notch does it, it adds a notch flavor... Thats called originality
cliff horse is goated
5:07 "i highly recommend you never create your own engine"
Baremettle (Exanima devs): Hold my physics-based tankard
Fifteen years later...
@@DejayClayton thats how long it takes to make a good game with a revolutionary engine
"I don't know how he got the idea". He played a game called Infiniminer by Zachtronics, which was 'a first-person competitive mining game that takes place in a procedurally generated [3D] block world'. At the time, Notch had been working on a clone of Dwarf Fortress called RubyDung. He was then inspired to move RubyDung forward more in the infiniminer direction of first person perspective rather than the top down DF style. What resulted was a game that marries the best aspects (for what Notch was making) of infiniminer and dwarf fortress.
It’s been 3 months since I started as your student. Been working nonstop and finally have my game studios legal! Thank you Mr. Brush!!!
Good luck with your game studios
@@meowfia4032 thank you!
Cliffhorse was released when he was still at Mojang, Jebb took over on Minecraft at that point, they were still doing their Scrolls card game, which there was beef with Bethesda
I have a friend who will create a new 3D engine just for his new game, but because he doesn't have money, I told him to learn Unity3D just to have him finish new game faster.
Notch, after buying that mansion, he still have enough to work on new game engine. It's really cool that he got back in the game dev scene and trace back his steps again. I still don't understand what he says Borderlands with D20s, should it be like, DnD but everyone use guns?
Bro made a new survival save
i prefer writing my own engine bc of the fine control it gives you, even if it takes a little longer at the start, towards the end you will probably be faster though with all custom tooling etc.
Writing it from scratch is a little much, but I like the framework approach (example: libGDX) where all the systems are defined, managed, and built by you. Only a couple of functions help you make a game like: drawing objects to the screen, loading images, physics and useful data structures like vectors. That's my approach
I feel like I seen this video before was it a reupload? Nice video
I wish when content creators spoke about Notch they would also mention.
He did NOT just do this out of nowhere. He was a developer for a game called Wurm Online, which he basically made into minecraft but for children.
Wurm was a game in its self that was absolutely amazing of an MMO and deserves recognition.
Yeah, i don't understand this problem. i know exactly how i want to spend the rest of my life if I make it big, living in some warm country, having a normal life, but free of the idea of "work" and spend my time running, climbing, lifting weights, doing martial arts, drawing, playing games, and whatever the fuck else I want with no worries.
Glazing notch so hard bro
I find interesting people gets depressed when they have money
In that case, just switch the focus on love for making games, it's just that, fake to be poor, just stash your money somewhere and forget you need money, just live for the pleasure of living
I guess I will never find out how it looks like to be depressed by being rich, but I guess I would just be bored as I am now that I'm poor
He got the idea from Infineminer
And another game I cant remember name of.
I'm glad for him moving on from early retirement. I'm trying to make a game myself and it's kind of big, ambitious, but there's so much left to do, doing the art programming and design yourself ain't easy.
i often wondered what he thought of MMOs and why not make one. i mean i guess minecraft would count.. it's like... what MMOs should be like in a way.
to prevent the MMO from dying, it must have an offline/LAN feature, unlike world of warcraft unless you hosted a private server offline, there's no alternative to a lot of these games.
but i do believe there's still many ideas in gaming dev/online not done, they're just niche or risky and "AAA" doesn't roll that route and lean more distopian I guess.
Come to think of it, i think someone like notch back in the business has a greater chance of helping the game industry than gta6, that game has no chance after how they did gta5, people easily forget the length of milking.
IIRC Notch himself mentioned somewhere that he got the 3D blocks idea from Dwarf Fortress and some other game which I forgot
More people should create their own engine (if they can afford it)
dont forget he outbid like kanye or jayz on the property, what a gansta programmers all day
Having a game dev who already just has shittons of money and their purpose is to have fun and make great games, that is the opposite of Bobby Kotick and the general AAA industry. Notch could be a second Jesus for the gaming industry, next to Swen Vincke.
I would never expect that guy to buy and spent money on such a house...
Notch didn't create the idea of stacking and mining blocks. He took Infiniminer by Zach Barth (Zachtronics) and built it out to fill his vision of a game. If you actually go read the forums post by Jebb you'll find that Minecraft's code is an absolute mess. Mainly the parts that were patched together around the old Infiniminer code. Jebb and the team really want to just remake the game from scratch with code that is all theirs and not a mess or nightmare to work with.
I've heard of the story of Infiniminer and how the source code was leaked, but are you sure Notch actually used said source code? Or was he inspired to do his own take after hearing that Zach was abandoning Infiniminer?
As a software dev myself, I can totally understand what Jeb, Dinnerbone and others have said about the source code of the game, even if it was made from scratch (i.e. No Infiniminer code). A game that grew so rapidly is going to be full of hacks and compromises. The one I remember was Dinnerbone commenting how every mob was technically a Zombie in the game's code (This was during 1.9 development when he was re-working Skeletons)
@@Protofall of course he didn't use the source code. infiniminer is c#, minecraft is java. it's just a stupid rumor that people spread around.
@@jonteet Ah, never knew it was C#. Thanks for letting me know.
*Yandere simulator joins the chat*
Uh... ok? Of course he didn't. He was still a huge part of the creation of the game. Try and downplay that all you want, but it doesn't matter.
Notch actually got the idea of minecraft from a game from 2009 called Infiniminer or something, Notch even mentions it in his youtube video description of cavegame
voxels turning into spheres
I was never a minecraft guy but even terraria, small studio that created somethong that generated close, if not more than a billion dollars OFF OF A $10 GAME!?!? crazy. And they've given their community 10+ years of free updates.
can't wait until we get to see some gameplay : ) the engine looks cool so far
Idle hands. Glad to hear he’s workin out of it.
Minecraft has been a massive source of inspiration for me and the main thing that comes to mind when thinking about nostalgia. Thanks to him and my love for creating games, I began coding from a young age. Very excited to see what he will make now :).
Yep wasn't an original idea, came from Infiniminer.
Hey, whatever he's got cooking in the kitchen - i'm already drooling with knife and fork
The journey of making a game and seeing it be enjoyed by other people is the pinnacle of gave development, imo at least
01:28 How he got the idea Infiniminer by Zachtronics
nah brah I think I'll take the 2.5 billion, if Notch doesn't want it he can give it to me
Lol
My personal favourite video of yours... This is something I have reflected on a lot after doing pretty well with indie game dev:
The money and success feels like the goal, but the real reward is always the act of creating.
In my experience, the BEST times in game dev were when I was broke just making things super personal and as an artist... if you are in that stage in game dev, enjoy it, it is pure and magical.
Money is awesome, don't get me wrong....
but if I, Thomas Brush, Notch, or any other passionate game dev, had the ultimatum :
Have $1B cash BUT you never get to sit on a computer and be creative in game dev again...
I bet we'd all pick the computer... or truly regret if we didn't.
"making money gets boring". LOL.
I wish I was as bored as Notch making money.
Hey Thomas.. why don't you have a video on opening a steam page or itch page? So much content here, I feel this is really missing.
Nah, what we can learn from notch is that it fun to build games, its also fun to make a ton of money, and then when you go back to making games again, you suddenly have the financial freedom to create whatever you want, in the timespan you want and you can order uber eats everyday.
"greatest accomplishments are behind you" .... what people have forgotten in these materialistic times, is that the greatest accomplishment is to create a FAMILY and have a ton of KIDS. your kids will love you no matter if you have money or not. you will never be lonely again. someone please tell Notch
Why Thomas is such gigaChad irl, damn
Bro is literallly rewriting history 😂
Quote: "It is fun to make money, but I think it gets boring. But I don't think making worlds ever gets boring" - Thomas Brush :) Great words!
Often what motivates us to create things is the hope of making money. But then people get rich and have this "oh crap, what do I do now" moment. The primary motivation for doing things disappears, and suddenly you're just sitting around doing nothing and being miserable. Money doesn't bring happiness, but it does remove problems that money can fix, like the fear of being homeless.
Bethesda should sue him for Cliffhorse tbh xD
Great to see something about Notch that is not about some old tweets.
I'm disappointed he didn't a
at least allude to it since people were taken aback how caustic and mean he was despite such a quiet demeanor in that indie doc about Minecraft back in the day.
@@TheArtkaw But that’s all that is being said about Notch. I think it was refreshing that this video was about his gamedev career.
I don’t even think that every time you talk about Phil Spector’s music it’s necessary to mention his crimes, and they are real crimes. Not just being cranky, obnoxious and mean.
@@TheArtkawhe got depressed, lonely, probably decided he wanted to get people talking about him so he acted out, saying edgy things for attention.... not really that surprising. And he got it. In fact, he continues to get it, every time his name comes up. But with this new content in the works, I'm sure hes ready to move on from those days. It's about time people start following suit
@@jasonsudeikis26It's not like these times of "saying edgy things" are in the past, I haven't checked up on him in a while but from what I've seen he made a tweet from as early as a year ago making fun of a pro-trans tweet that C418 made. Holding people accountable is important. Just because it's been a bit since he said these things and started doing stuff that isn't mindless scrolling on twitter all day, is not a good reason to forgive someone. He can pretend he didn't say bad things and never make a statement about it for as long as he wants, but silence won't forgive him. Ever.
1:30 the idea he got it from another game at the time called Infiminer, which had you placing and breaking blocks while fighting and stuff
I believe that making games is the fun part also, yet I'm also stopped at the knowledge part, bc none of my school has any classes I need for unity or C# and tutorials don't work bc I'm a heavy person-person learner, and I can't do any actually good courses bc I'm broke... I have HOURS of just planned out game ideas, probably like 10-20 fully fleshed out game ideas at this point, and I want to make/attempt some of them SO BAD, but I just can't learn... what a shame, I hope all my ideas I worked so hard on don't go to waste, but that's what I kinda feel will happen rn, if anyone has any feedback just pls reply
I think you know already what you need to do. Maybe learning programming alone seems off-putting, but ultimately nobody will sacrifice their time to teach you. So just open up a beginner tutorial and *follow* the steps of that tutorial. Can be c# for unity, or gdscript for Godot. I also recommend starting out with a 2D game.
Then you just keep going. Small steps, sacfice an hour or two every other day. That's the only way, it's always been this way.
I learned the basics of C# using Microsoft’s online web-tutorial, then moved on to Code Monkey’s free full game course (was posted on TH-cam some time last year)
It’s about the journey not the destination. It’s cool to finally reach the destination but once you reach it what is there left you do? That’s why you always need to be ready for the next journey.
I think spending a month trying to make an engine in OpenGL is a right of passage for a lot of software engineers lol
Imagine if it blows up as much as minecraft
it would be the coolest comeback ever
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If it's stupid and corny, and appeals to 12 year old, it will
@@Jay-og4yb 😶
@@Jay-og4yb Minecraft isn't stupid
Well said .. that mansion is cool for flexing but for living I would buy much much better AND much much cheaper houses. Somewhere in nature, with fireplace, stone and wood walls .. something cozy and like big cabin/house
I've never seen someone more humble ever. When those that are supposed to be humble prefer to be prideful instead..
3:46 thats how I feel, zero motivation at all, because I have accomplished everything I ever wanted to (which is own a computer).
I guess he’s planning to make a survival game with elements from Pixel Gun.
Definitely modern houses cause depression, that's why I would completely buy a classical castle instead!
He should have bought a bunch of shipping containers and put them together, that would have been better, and more blocky too. Glass mansions are stupid. I really don't like the idea of having huge glass panels leading into the place where I live, you might as well just have a house with no doors.
Well if notch is bored out of his mind he can always give some of his money to me and I'll try my best to develop next "minecraft" game on my own within next 5 years =).
I have a feeling we have another classic on our hands.
Agreed 100%... This game looks cool
As much as I love Minecraft, the idea of block placing and breaking and mining, it wasn't "unheard" of. Not at all. There were at least 2 predecessors before Minecraft. Just FYI...
"Notch is Minecraft. Minecraft is Notch"? Well... just don't forget about all those controversial years with his success, Notch starts dumping random crap on Minecraft itself, which led most of the Minecraft community turned on him.
And... why shouldn't anyone create their own engines? Computers have been around for less than a hundred years, and game industry is merely about half of that. Throwing the word "never" around like that seems a bit...... naive. It's almost like everyone has already figured out "absolutely everything" when it comes to making video games within a few decades, and nobody "should never ever ever" try new things altogether, like, at all.
Making games is all fun and well, until it actually became a business. Then you'll have to start thinking about logistics, finances, communication flows within your teams, various other administrations, marketing, etc etc.
Don't take me wrong. "Inspiration messages" like these are just misleading at the best case scenario. It doesn't help the newcomers (whether they'd be programmers or game devs) to point them in the right direction, it doesn't actually give experienced developers any practical advices. Veterans... well, they'd just shrug and leave.
so what you saying is that "maybe game development was the friends we made along the way"
I'm really happy for Notch. I think after hitting on such a huge success and getting rich he probably thought he would be happy, but only felt hollow. I mean, it's easy to say I wouldn't mind being in his shoes, but in the end, money can't buy happiness, and I suspect he was happiest making games. I think that getting back to his roots will help him feel fulfilled again.
I sure hope that consistently stays true even if the game can't become a decent Private Equity like Minecraft
That's because the greatest career in a person's life, contrary to appearances, is not making games - although that is sometimes exciting - but being a loving father and mother. Then you have someone to live for and you simply have no time for depression😉
Not everyone values this kind of goal, having a wife, why not, a successful carreer, sure, but kids aren't for everyone.
7:10 the journey is the fun
I have to say I definitely agree not to make own game engine 😂 I am very ambitious person that would be overkill for me. But I can understand that we need to love what we do and the best feeling is looking forward what to achieve. I get so excited thinking about my few stories that I need to write building up the plots and stories, characters looking forward to people reactions even though there will be small number who will read it, the stories i create give me purpose. I just love what I am doing and extremely excited to make many very short indie games and use my storytelling skills to make my game less crappy. 2024 will be a good year to enjoy my creations or least I hope. I am just enjoying the creative process now.
dumb hot take... 'the treasure is building the game studio'...
The realities are: DON'T EXPECT TO FEEL ANY DIFFERENT IF YOU HAVE WHATEVER SHINY NEW TOY THAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED... wherever you go, you come too... so if you're not happy with YOURSELF, money is not going to change that.
The only thing money can do is reduce the stress of being poor. If you're not happy living a humbly meager life (covering your basic food, shelter, etc needs), then you're just not going to be happy as rich person... wherever you go, you come too.
He got his idea from infiniminer
I'd argue that there's nothing crappy about infinite freedom!
I saw Notch coding on a stream. I'm a good programmer, he is a genius. He was so quick and hard to follow, it was insane.
Man I just wish I had the money to create worlds...
There is no million of dollar idea.