FortressCraft - Coming March 2011.

[Atreides]

i played this for a little today, only being able to create gets a little tiresome but it's not too bad. There are a couple things that bother me, like overall framerate could probably have been sacrificed for not making such nice textures, and the way you have to remove torches, but some of the block designs are kinda nice.

[Pikarya]

i played this for a little today, only being able to create gets a little tiresome but it's not too bad. There are a couple things that bother me, like overall framerate could probably have been sacrificed for not making such nice textures, and the way you have to remove torches, but some of the block designs are kinda nice.

Had a friend come over today (He plays MC also avidly) and we both came to agree this game in 3 months of development has more content than what MC currently offers in 3 years of time.

I'm extremely impressed with framerate I'm getting (new 360S). I haven't had any of the problems I've heard some people having. I'm guessing trolls or older hardware?

Secondly the biggest complaint I hear is the visuals.

You can turn off Bloom, you can make the visuals "simple" similar to minecraft. You can also adjust the water effects and so on. Configuration-wise, the game has a ton of things to play with for being in such an infant stage.

There were many things I wanted/didn't want in chapter 1 release. But it looks like everything I personally hate or love is being fixed in chapter 2 in the upcoming weeks.

[Atreides]

you can't place water blocks, can you?

[Pikarya]

Yeah its a command via console.

http://fortresscraftforums.com/index...mands-in-game/

Also if you want to get all the relics super easy. Just hold F1 on your keyboard and look under the ground for them.

Little note, saving worlds currently has issues. Don't build anything super mega end expect it to survive unless you work around the current glitch. Check the forums for more official big logs.

There will be at LEAST 3 patches, over the coming weeks and months. I promise.(1.01 tiny, 1.1 small and 1.5 large)

All free of charge, 2.0 will be the next big release.

[Atreides]

what's the equivalent for F1 on the xbox controller? or on the chatpad thingy on the official xbox one?

[Pikarya]

Not sure on the chatpad. I have one but its hidden away somewhere. I use a USB keyboard.

[Atreides]

ah ok, ill just plug one in later thanks

[Pikarya]

4/8/11 & 4/9/11 Sale report currently selling more copies per day than Minecraft!

Nothing amazing, but Microsoft really wasn't ready for the amount of server traffic they are receiving from this Indie game.

[izembo]

what exactly is the point of this game?

[Pikarya]

what exactly is the point of this game?

Sandbox?

[Atreides]

same as minecraft, except you just build

honestly the only thing I don't like about FortressCraft is the complete asshole they have doing PR for it. After this game failed peer review the first time he took to youtube and started calling people faggots and acting all high and mighty, and now that it's out he's calling it "his" game (he had nothing to do with the development, I don't even think he knows the dev that well). Oh and he said that the game sold 250k copies, when that was pretty much a huge lie.

[Pikarya]

same as minecraft, except you just build

honestly the only thing I don't like about FortressCraft is the complete asshole they have doing PR for it. After this game failed peer review the first time he took to youtube and started calling people faggots and acting all high and mighty, and now that it's out he's calling it "his" game (he had nothing to do with the development, I don't even think he knows the dev that well). Oh and he said that the game sold 250k copies, when that was pretty much a huge lie.

Yeah I know who you're exactly talking about. He runs the Facebook page and is a giant douche. I heard on the forums he's probably going to get canned hard soon.

[miokomioko]

I saw the reaction to FortressCraft being called a ripoff was "well, Minecraft was a ripoff too!" Cool comeback. We are all aware that the initial idea was inspired by Infiniminer... but Mojang openly admits/embraces it and Minecraft is now a far cry from what Infiniminer was or ever tried to be. FortressCraft isn't even attempting to be or look different aside from adding things that people modded into Minecraft or just wanted. At least take it in a new direction. I know Markus has no interest in taking legal action, but there's that general "30%" rule that is clearly being violated, even if it's just a courtesy thing at this point. Having that kind of shitty attitude while simultaneously capitalizing off of a clone is complete and total douche-bag material. The people who matter in most industries are a pretty small clique. They would indeed be better off publicly cutting ties with him.

[Atreides]

I'd be kinda surprised if Notch couldn't somehow at least get Microsoft to take it off of XBL, seems like they've censored indie games for less serious things than that (although there are angry birds clones on there now, so who knows).

Some of the stuff in Fortresscraft is neat, the textures are really nice and the stuff you build (along with the water effects) at least look pretty impressive. There is a pretty big block variety (along with a set that is essentially a copy of minecraft's textures) but it does feel like it has a few ideas of its own, like a gun to destroy blocks from afar and a trampoline... actually, have those things been added to minecraft as mods already and I just don't know about it?

Still, I think that people will buy the game for the same reason people buy Gameloft games on iphone, a lot of people just want that experience on whichever platform and will pay for it no matter who offers it.

[Pikarya]

I do admit MC is > FC in the controls dept. My wrists start to hurt after 2 hours or so of tedious building with the controller. As for current features, and whats to come. I'll take FC > MC any day of the weekend.

There's also a way to do custom texture packs (128x128). Not that it matters since I've configured my graphics settings to be as simple as possible like Minecraft is. (No Shadows, Flat, No bump map/etc.)

http://i52.tinypic.com/deuq0h.jpg

[miokomioko]

Notch recently retweeted someone's suggestion of craftable jump-pads/springboards (3 steel ingots + 1 slime ball). The screenshot included made it look like someone had already modded/created it. Not sure though.

I forget, does Notch intend to extend Minecraft out to all/more possible platforms?

[Correction]

Notch has ruled out a console release more than once. Given that MC is written in Java it could conceivably run on anything that runs Java, it would just require someone to have the source code and do it.

[Atreides]

out of curiosity, when you find relics does it unlock them for use in all your subsequent games, or only the world you found them in?

[Pikarya]

out of curiosity, when you find relics does it unlock them for use in all your subsequent games, or only the world you found them in?

As of right now only in the world you found them in. He's adding cave systems in a future chapter, so for now they are just there to play with if you find them.