Minceraft, A Post Mortem

We have tried adding secrets to the game earlier than. Small things, like obscure crafting recipes or bizarre conduct, and every thing all the time will get discovered immediately. Irrespective of how obscure we make a new feature, it is absolutely documented within hours of a new release. That is awesome, and an important instance of how devoted some Minecraft gamers are, but it surely also means we can't actually hide anything good in the sport even when we tried.

So some time in the past, I did some deliberately obscure code in the title screen to change two letters round, making it say "Minceraft" (outdated operating gag, there's even a "minceraft" mockup t shirt design we did) as a substitute of "Minecraft" on each 10000th recreation launch or so, and no person discovered it! I was so comfortable about that, I lastly knew something about the game the players didn't know.

Flash ahead to this GDC a number of days in the past, I'm doing an interview with Chris Hecker, and he asks me if there's anything no one has present in the sport, and i say sure. I should've mentioned no, but I said sure. Then I begin getting emails and tweets about it, individuals begin getting excited, and figuring out how minor the key is, I strive to inform individuals it is a very minor secret. That appears to gasoline the flames. A reporter from a well known gaming site desires to run an article on it, and i tell him to not. Getting individuals hyped up about an intentional typo is not really a good technique to spend everyone's time.

There's a number of cool stuff to learn from this, though. One is that it Is possible to hide stuff in plain sight, however once people go on the lookout for it, they may discover it.  Roofinfo  is that individuals appear to want to get excited over things, even in case you inform them it's nothing main.

I am impressed and relieved you found it. I won't touch upon it outdoors of this subreddit.