1701

He posted the video on his blog. Then there was some flame war about who was the original author, so he deleted the post.

The people posting on his blog show the worst of the human nature. My pet theory is that the game attract very juvenile public, like 12 and 13 years old. Because of the low price and because the freedom. Garrys Mod suffer a lot from that, really inmature people with the most crazy demands.

I have no idea why people continue having childrens. It has to be fun, or something.

About time!

Now, somehone made a decent CPU in Minecraft that can run Java, and we are set.

1702

Hey kids, y’all know of any good tutorials for this?

1703

Bravo, and here I thought scale models of star destroyers and the Enterprise were the height of nerd-dom…I stand corrected.

1704

It’s not really a tutorial, but there is a wiki, with all the basic stuff you need to know.

1705

GuildBoss has a tutorial series on YouTube.

1706

Awesome, thanks guys!

1707

Aw, axes aren’t for branches!

1708

I can’t tell you how glad I am that modern IT support doesn’t involve cleaning up after pigs.

1709

One day, scientists and engineers will use Minecraft generated worlds for the manipulation of small-scale systems. Cows, chickens and pigs can represent the innocuous or helpful indigenous populations (e.g. dust particles) while the monsters will represent hostile contaminants.

1710

I tried Minecraft after seeing it pop up in threads everywhere, and I thought “Meh, Gmod but with worse graphics and no poseable ragdolls, whatever”

But after seeing that ship, holy jebus! When he turned around to show the Enterprise, the immense scale of the thing completely blew my mind.

To be honest, the size of the well he was in was pretty impressive on its own, that probably added to the effect.

The idea that all these players would be hard at work on a server completing construction…that would be the epic game video of epic game videos if someone were to record that.

1711

“I originally took all the decks from the Whitefire plans and layered them in Gimp. I then re-sized the plans to a 1 pixel = 1 meter scale.” He then reduced each deck to a two-color bitmap exported as a layer, which he considers the most tedious part of the project. “After that, the level editor for Minecraft sucked up each layer and spit out what you saw. When I wandered around on the ship for the first time, I was so pleased it worked out so well.”

Knowing that you can have Minecraft “suck up” a bit map and spit out something like that enormous Enterprise makes the entire thing much less impressive somehow. Not that it was ever likely one dude plunked down all those bricks by hand in the first place mind you, but it was somehow more awe inspiring before I knew the trick.

1712

I had that same reaction as soon as I read that the guy merely imported a model. Still very impressive for other reasons, but the feat is not exactly mindblowing.

1713

Good god, that’s just disturbing. That would have taken for ever, even if he did use a map editor.

I still find it impressive just because of how big it is. Hopefully he gets it finished, it would be very cool to explore the enterprise deck by deck.

1714

PC Gamer love for Minecraft.

1715

This is complete nonsense.

1716

And you have something to base that negative opinion?

1717

LOL!

He has more evidence than you have dingleberry. Look around.

1718

The fact that pretty much every person I know who plays Minecraft is an adult, the popularity of the game on this forum amongst the older generation, the awesome youtube videos being almost entirely done by adults…

Pure creative efforts almost never appeal to the age range you’ve mentioned because of the work involved. There’s no instant payoff for those with a short attention span.

1719

If you combine this troll with the troll in the 3DS thread saying that it’s a kiddie handheld I think we can safely conclude that all video games are designed purely for children.

Believe if or not, Dwarf Fortress was actually designed with toddlers in mind!

1720

I look around here, and see 20+,30+ people, but thats don’t mean everyone that play Minecraft is on that age. QT3 is not a typical forum. Also, is not THE minecraft forum.

Here is a poll on the Minecraft forum.
POLL: HOW OLD ARE YOU?
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=34403&start=90

43% are 12-17
38% are 18-24
12% are 25-31
5% are 32+

For age 1-11 theres almost not data, but I guest there are a lot of players, but don’t show in a forum, because are not forumgoers at that age.

I was asking JM, because of his firm position, maybe he has better data than me.

I have not said that, or anything like that.

I have see lots of ancients here on my city, playing the games installed by default on Ubuntu… his favorite seems “gnect”. So, my experience is that old people like videogames. Ancient people have some problems with the mouse, but can use it. This is positive confirmation that gaming exist at 80+.

I have tried to get my 2 years old cousin to play Minecraft, but he don’t “get” the mouse concept. Is not intuitive to him. The kid is amazing smart, he shows a strong intelligence, but can’t use the mouse. It seems at 2 years old you can’t play PC games.

This is a interesting theory, and I have nothing to refute it. My opinion is that you are wrong.