Theres a game that been in development for xbox live called fortresscraft and im not sure how many of you have heard of it but basically its a complete ripoff of minecraft for the xbox but i want to hear your thoughts on this so do you think its a ripoff or not? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JPYsmbf__Q[/youtube]
That's really lame it's pretty much a direct ripoff from Minecraft but a little more polished, nice way to make money from someone elses game
Wow, minecraft graphics are really better. I mean, "realistic" graphics are not adapted to this kind of game. BTW, I'm not sure if they'll be allowed to launch such a game. Mojang could sue them and win easily...
I doubt it. Copyrights and trademarks are taken very lightly. The same product, made on a different way, is already no longer copyright offending.
And I dont think Minecraft took an patent on there idea...(which is pretty hard to get) Btw it looks pretty laggy...was looking at other videos, movements didnt look that smooth, water looks nice but seems to render slowly. No big community and why play it with a console ?
...yeah you could see he definitely took some art design of minecraft. everything just looks more "polished up" and he changed things (as in the effects you build with, the range of where you can built blocks.) if the guy had decided to do something else with the building concept, like making a open world shooter where you have to built a base, defend it from raids from other players and on the same time organise raids to claim their fortress, it would have been less of a big deal, i think. he should have added more than just cubes..he had the chance to add diffent sort of vorms, like triangles, circles, pyramids etc. But no, he's trying to get a little bit of profit from a bigger succes [Minecraft].
My opinion: Nope, Mojang has no chance and will not try to sue this game. This for the simple reason that he is not using any of Mojang's artwork. The idea might be "stolen" from Minecraft. However I suggest you wait until it's actually released, because from what this guy said he plans on making it quite different from Minecraft. While I don't like what it is right now, it might become nice in the future. P.S. The likes/dislike ratio of the video is simply caused by the Minecraft community being very immature IMO. (This does not involve you )
@ jer9, do you know that notch is gonna build a zombie raid mode. Where zombies will attack your fortress and possibly can destroy blocks. And when the moon turns red, the number of zombies will be massive. But that's a mode after the game turns retail
ah that was the name, i knew there was a game before minecraft which had the same concept but couldnt remember which one xD @Taz yeah, heard about it (if its going to be an expansion minecraft..then it would be a shame for the beta players..like me!) but the main thing i meant with my "example" was that he could have done much more with a building concept instead of the using minecraft kind of way.