As we informed you two days ago, Markus ‘Notch’ Persson and his team have been preparing a new game. This game got a name and will be called ‘0x10c’. Think of it as a Firefly/Elite Hybrid Space Sim. The game is still extremely early in development, but like they did with Minecraft, they expect to release it early and let the players help them shape the game as it grows. Now I don’t know if this will have the same impact as Minecraft, especially with all those Kickstarters campaigns that started appearing the previous weeks. Moreover, the cost of the game is still undecided, but it’s likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as they are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren’t logged in. Monthly fee and beta phase in which gamers have to pay to gain access? Ouch. Continue reading Markus ‘Notch’ Persson’s new game is called ‘0x10c’ and will be a Firefly/Elite Hybrid Space Sim→
Remember that April’s Fools joke of Notch’s Mars Effect game? Well, it appears that the April’s Fool joke was the name of it and not the actual game. According to its website that got updated today (as well as Notch himself), this game is not fake and the only ‘fake’ thing at its website was its name. Continue reading Markus ‘Notch’ Persson hints at a new game→
Now this is really interesting. Earlier this week, Markus Persson suggested Double Fine to self fund a sequel to Psychonauts by doing more crowd funding. No, that’s incorrect. Markus said that he’d do exactly that if he was in Tim Schafer’s shoes, so… well… yeah, he suggested that. Anyway, a lot of the press covered it and thought that Markus suggested Double Fine to start a Kickstarter for Psychonauts 2. I mean, that’s one way of how the crowd can fund a game, right? Which is fine by us but it seems that Cliff Bleszinski was annoyed by all this thing. Continue reading Cliff Bleszinski calls Persson crazy for his suggestions on Psychonauts 2, Persson defends himself→
