Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it turns out it’s also a cash printing machine – ProjectorGames’ Minecraft clone, FortressCraft, is now officially the Xbox LIVE Indie Games channel’s biggest ever hit, with 350 000 copies sold and a $1 million in the bank in just six months.<\/p>\n
And probably just in time too, with the real Minecraft prepping for its own XBLA launch sometime pretty soon. Something tells me FortressCraft’s popularity might just take a bit of a dive around about the same time.<\/p>\n
Predictably enough, FortressCraft has invited some criticism, even from Minecraft creator Notch, who has previously described<\/a> it as, “an obvious attempt to just take something popular and clone it as closely as possible. I still think it’s important that people are allowed and able to do things like that, but it’s hardly graceful.”<\/p>\n The comment prompted ProjectGames’ DjArcas to respond with a lengthy rebuttal<\/a>, pointing out that FortressCraft totally has rayguns and trampolines, and Minecraft totally doesn’t, so there.<\/p>\n