Reply With QuoteJust to be fickle, stars would only really disappear to the point of being nearly unnoticeable in the sky after several hundred trillion years.
Either way, the premise sounds awesome! I only just learned of this, so thanks Pally!
0x10c, as many of you likely know, is the title of a new computer game under development by Mojang, the company that brought us Minecraft. So far, the very concept of the game has me squirming with anticipation.
The basic story is that the game is set in an alternate universe in which the Space Race never ended. Space exploration, colonization, and mining gained popularity with large corporations and wealthy individuals. In 1988, a form of cryogenic stasis was invented that made long-range space travel possible. However, due to an obscenely huge error, the stasis chambers where programmed to work with a different kind of decimal system than the 16-bit computers which controlled them. Because of this error, a sleep-cycle requested to last 1 year would in actuality last several billion. Unknowing of the horrible mistake, thousands took to the stars in the stasis chambers. They awoke hundreds of billions of years later to a radically different universe. No stars were in recognizable places, no other galaxies where within visible range, all formation of new stars had ceased, massive black holes dominate the space-scape, and all traces of the former human race had long since disappeared.
The game is supposed to resemble what people thought the future would look like back in the 1980s. Low-res polygons will be used in the graphics to reflect this. Each player's ship will come equip with a generator that puts out a set wattage of power, and a fully-emulated, fully-programmable 16-bit computer. Players can install modules on their ships for propulsion, defense, weapons, and all kinds of other things, but these modules consume power from the generator. The entire ship will be controllable from that 16-bit computer.
The amount of hard-scifi going into this is giving me a tremendous, throbbing brainer. Who else is excited?
Oh, they've got a forum and wiki already. Take a look at this beautiful thing.
Last edited by PaladinFoster; 05-10-2012 at 09:15 PM.
I don't know what to put here right now.
Just to be fickle, stars would only really disappear to the point of being nearly unnoticeable in the sky after several hundred trillion years.
Either way, the premise sounds awesome! I only just learned of this, so thanks Pally!
I forgot the precise year the game takes place in, let me go get it from Notch's site...
Ah, it's 281 474 976 712 644 AD.
The official site is here. Nothing much to see yet, but there's some exciting info.
I don't know what to put here right now.
That makes more sense. So the game holds that the universe will undergo heat death? Lol.
So by 16-bit computer, does this mean we'll have people programming a program within a program like in minecraft with redstone? :P
Exactly. A simplified language is being written by Notch himself for the things to run on.
As the website says, "Each ship has a generator capable of producing a fixed wattage, and everything you connect to it drains wattage. A cloaking field, for example, might require almost all the power from the generator, forcing you to turn off all computers and dim all lights in order to successfully cloak.
The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish.
Full specifications of the CPU will be released shortly, so the more programatically advanced of you can get a head start."
I don't know what to put here right now.
Oh my jesus christ lizard. Pally thank you so much for notifying me of this development.
Good thing I took C++ programming courses Freshman year, cause I have a basic knowledge of how to program stuff potentially now.
I'm also glad I took a Visual Basic course this year. It's no problem, you would have heard of it soon anyway.
I don't know what to put here right now.
Ooh, early screen-shots!
Title Screen:
DCPU-16 Interface(The onboard computer's screen):
Interior of a prototype ship, with a star and asteroid in view through windows:
Yes, that is a low-polygon Soldier model from TF2.
I don't know what to put here right now.
Tried to start a mercenaries' guild on the 0x10c forum. No one wants to join.
:C
I don't know what to put here right now.
Isn't this that thing that caused a huge shitstorm over Notch wanting people to pay a monthly subscription fee for a game that didn't exist yet?
Anyway if it's only Not¢h developing it and not Our Lord and Savior Jeb, I think I'll pass.
Posting Permissions
Originally Posted by SmexySpiral
