{"id":12930,"date":"2011-07-15T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"minecraft-creator-talks-xbox-version-kinect-support-punching-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12930-minecraft-creator-talks-xbox-version-kinect-support-punching-trees","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft creator talks Xbox version, Kinect support, punching trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft creator Markus &ldquo;Notch&rdquo; Persson has been talking up the BIG-SHOCK-OF-E3! Xbox port of the game, telling <a href=\"http:\/\/xbox360.ign.com\/articles\/118\/1182028p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a> that it&rsquo;s &ldquo;a new product&#8230; designed to work better on a console and to focus on the types of experiences you expect when playing games on a console.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So what&rsquo;s new about it then? &#8220;The crafting needs to be done completely different,&rdquo; says Notch. &ldquo;The current type of crafting with a game controller would be about as fun as name-entry is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Topically, he&rsquo;s still working out those Kinect features. &#8220;I&#8217;m trying very hard to make sure we have a setting you can turn on that turns the game into what everyone is joking about; you wave your arms around to mine and use items. It&#8217;s just too silly not to include. Punching trees from the comfort of your living room has never been this immersive before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somebody has to start marketing inflatable cube accessories for this game. Imagine the possibilities. Okay, maybe not so many possibilities, but probably more interesting than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/268772\/news\/kinect-gets-boat-peripheral\/\" target=\"_blank\">a rubber boat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minecraft &ndash; &ldquo;actual game title not decided yet&rdquo;, just by the way &ndash; is out sometime later this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15654-Notch-discusses-Minecraft-for-Xbox-360?p=475640#post475640\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Minecraft for Xbox 360<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINECRAFT MINECRAFT MINECRAFT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}