Notes

Minceraft, A Put Up Mortem
We have tried including secrets to the sport earlier than. Small issues, like obscure crafting recipes or bizarre behavior, and every thing at all times gets figured out immediately. Irrespective of how obscure we make a brand new feature, it is totally documented inside hours of a new launch. This is superior, and a fantastic instance of how dedicated some Minecraft players are, but it also means we won't actually conceal something good in the game even if we tried.

So some time in the past, I did some deliberately obscure code in the title screen to switch two letters round, making it say "Minceraft" (old operating gag, there's even a "minceraft" mockup t shirt design we did) as a substitute of "Minecraft" on every 10000th sport launch or so, and no person discovered it! I was so pleased about that, I finally knew one thing about the sport the players didn't know.

Flash ahead to this GDC just a few days in the past, I'm doing an interview with Chris Hecker, and he asks me if there's something no person has present in the game, and i say sure. I should've mentioned no, but I mentioned yes. Multiplayer servers Then I begin getting emails and tweets about it, folks start getting excited, and figuring out how minor the key is, I strive to tell folks it is a very minor secret. That appears to fuel the flames. A reporter from a well-known gaming site wants to run an article on it, and that i tell him to not. Getting people hyped up about an intentional typo isn't actually a superb solution to spend everybody's time.

There's a lot of cool stuff to learn from this, although. One is that it Is feasible to hide stuff in plain sight, but once folks go in search of it, they'll discover it. One other thing is that individuals appear to want to get excited over issues, even should you inform them it's nothing major.

I am impressed and relieved you found it. I will not comment on it outdoors of this subreddit.

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