Building the 'Minecraft' Creator Platform Block-by-Block

Minecraft has a long history of user-generated content and has formally supported Add-Ons on the Bedrock product since 2015 which enabled the Minecraft Marketplace to launch. With over $500 million in gross revenue and more than 1.7 billion downloads since 2015, hundreds of professional creators have built a career making content that engages our player-base. This GDC 2024 session explores the platform's journey since 2020, discussing the development of its formal Creator API, tooling solutions, new gameplay features, and how we've evolved community engagement. We'll chart the creator's evolution from player to hobbyist to professional and discuss how Mojang Studios is supporting creators' evolving needs.
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[@androider1412]

Welcome to corpo talks where we only care about money and why we're here. We are the gamers!

[@LandyOO5]

Missed half of the talk where they talk about making efforts to support tools for the creator community no matter which step of the creator spectrum... or even if they end up in the marketplace or not.

[@GM1and0]

Thank you all of artist behind the GDC happy teacher's day po❤️.

[@TheVRSofa]

"own a game that already makes millions, heres how to pump as much cash as possible out of kids" is what this felt like. its awesome but this didnt feel like it about game deisn, more about how ot get that money out the kids wallet. a big advert

[@baileyharrison1030]

Yes Minecraft has already had incredibly well-made mods ever since it released. This is just a greedy attempt to monetise the game mods in a similar vein to Bethesda's 'Creation Club'

[@justinbuergi9867]

Most of the free stuff (GDC) puts out is advertisements.

[@adamrushford]

@@baileyharrison1030 Why wouldn't you want proper modding tools, anyone who has modded minecraft which is almost everyone should know by now all the "framework" problems, glitchy half made mods, limited compatibility leading to overly complex websites just to manage it, and infighting amongst mod OG's. Also why does everyone expect everything for free? It's their game they paid 2.5b to acquire and it's a popular community effort in much need of such systems even if it is monetized... btw Creation Club is a credit reward system you don't have to spend a penny on if you contribute.
But you're in luck I have a whole channel of free c++ including working on a modularized modern feature rich game engine

[@pyxel64]

You poor?

[@pixeljacked8047]

​@@baileyharrison1030it matches with other games in the space, although it's less exploitative as these paid experiences and items are one time only, Vs. having micro transactions within them like Roblox

[@carrotgod3974]

not as bad as people said this talk was

[@AdrianBrightmoore]

Great insights and a fantastic overview of the vision behind supporting the creator journey.
Thanks for giving this talk!

[@cyberaxe_lznj]

Its worse today than 2020. This entire team should be fired.

[@emilydavidson8844]

Cope

[@Kramerica962]

"I'm Kayla."
Press X to doubt

[@laureloneiros1500]

gdc bad, am I right gamers?

[@nondi]

terrible talk

[@MelissaThompson-w5y]

Davis Locks

[@MotleyDaphne]

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