September 19th, 2010 by Crusader
Who’s playing Minecraft?
Thanks!
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September 19th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I am, my step brother is, from a chart published long ago, a bit over 1% of players who ever played was linux users, which was like ~70 people at the time. No idea how it is now, but try to ask notch on twitter or in comments. Just note that it’s extremly hard to get in touch with him.
September 19th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I’ve spent a little time with it, I should play some more.
September 19th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
I tried that early free alpha and it was very glitchy. From what I’ve seen from videos it’s looking a lot better but I will probably wait until it’s a bit more refined before trying a newer version. It just can’t compete with the depth of a game like Dwarf Fortress.
September 19th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
what’s this game about?
- music is not working on my machine
- is there a way to get the game to be fullscreen?
September 19th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
*(&*%^ First dwarf fortress for 3 weeks (about 40 hours of play) to where I was finally not thinking about at work and BAM, another very addictive (short term) game for me. I have played about 20 hours now, and although I am obsessed with it, I can see it becoming more casual after a couple more hours. I highly recommend it to anyone who has time to waste. I would have bought it sooner but donations to Paypay stay in Paypal unless they have unlocked his account.
I think of suggestions like ability to script items, add quests, MMO, 2 teams build castles then siege each other, and RPG elements, but they may take away from the simple nature of the game.
Now to go explore that cavern I boarded up while digging to the bottom.
September 19th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I’m playing the free play right now. I never bought the game because the browser version doesn’t work. The game is way to incomplete for me to drop any money on it.
September 19th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Re: sound, download this and unrar it to .minecraft/resources (normally it would download in-game but due to the server issues this isn’t working at present): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MATEG1FA
September 20th, 2010 at 1:34 am
Yes. Playing it a lot. :) Works fine, occasional OpenGL-centred (I think) crash.
September 20th, 2010 at 6:56 am
I tried it once.
I have better question though. It has been almost 2 weeks since I posted news about my game and linuxgames hasn’t published it yet :/ How come?
September 20th, 2010 at 7:21 am
I’m trying to catch up on news now; I was out of the country for a while :(
September 20th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
I spoke with notch, website stats are:
87.5% windows, 10.04% mac, 1.52% linux, 0.04% not set
Last I remember, stats showed 170k people who bought the game, which would be 2584 people.
Since linux users are less picky about games they play, and windows stats are higher because of that(more windows users only visits once, while probably more linux’ers stay), so I’d round it to 2600.
September 20th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Well, I’m a linuxer, but I still play it at work at lunch… so that’s one vote that could be either or both :P
September 20th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
asmageddon, I’m sure there would be more Linux users if the web plugin worked for Linux users. I couldn’t try the game until they put the standalone download up over the weekend.
September 21st, 2010 at 1:29 am
The ‘web plugin’ is just a Java applet, so yes, it does work in-browser under Linux.
September 21st, 2010 at 1:35 am
Just make sure you use sun java vm. Also, there were times when it didn’t work at all.
September 21st, 2010 at 8:19 am
64bit OpenJDK 6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1 here and web worked fine for the free version 3 weeks ago. Once I bought it I have only played the stand alone and so far I have not run into any problems with OpenJDK.
September 21st, 2010 at 11:24 am
I had never heard of it until now. Looks interesting.
October 7th, 2010 at 11:02 am
I’m playing and so is my son, bought it for him for his birthday, he loves it.