{"id":35455,"date":"2012-04-04T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T09:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35455"},"modified":"2012-04-04T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:25:15","slug":"notch-reveals-new-game-we-cant-pronounce-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35455-notch-reveals-new-game-we-cant-pronounce-its-name","title":{"rendered":"Notch reveals new game, we can\u2019t pronounce its name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back Minecraft creator <a title=\"Markus \u201cNotch\u201d Persson\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23928-Markus-\u201cNotch\u201d-Persson\">Markus \u201cNotch\u201d Persson<\/a> mentioned that he would like to create a space trading game, and it looks like he is doing exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called 0x10c &#8211; we have no idea how it\u2019s pronounced, and Notch has no intention of telling us yet. Apparently it\u2019s a riddle, and this is the first clue: \u201cWhat happens if you try to read a 64-bit representation of 1 in a 16 bit system, but you get the endianness wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m no closer to getting it either.<\/p>\n<p>As for the game itself, it\u2019s going to a be a space game, and like Minecraft, it promises to be \u201cquite ambitious.\u201d 0x10c takes place in a parallel universe where the space race never ended because space travel gained popularity amongst corporations and rich people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compatible with all popular 16-bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game is super early in development still, but according to Notch, it might include a monthly fee because all computers and physics are going to be emulated, even when players are not online.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Game Features (according to Notch)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hard science fiction.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of engineering.<\/li>\n<li>Fully working computer system.<\/li>\n<li>Space battles against the AI or other players.<\/li>\n<li>Abandoned ships full of loot.<\/li>\n<li>Duct tape!<\/li>\n<li>Seamlessly landing on planets.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced economy system.<\/li>\n<li>Random encounters.<\/li>\n<li>Mining, trading, and looting.<\/li>\n<li>Single and multi player connected via the multiverse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"0x10c\" href=\"http:\/\/0x10c.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">0x10c<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Minecraft banks $80 million in sales\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34779-minecraft-banks-80-million-in-sales.html\">Minecraft banks $80 million in sales<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Minecraft for Xbox adds many new features\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34470-minecraft-for-xbox-adds-many-new-features.html\">Minecraft for Xbox adds many new features<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bethesda successfully trademarks a common noun\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34048-bethesda-successfully-trademarks-a-common-noun.html\">Bethesda successfully trademarks a common noun<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"EA wants Minecraft on Origin, thinks Notch \u201cneeds help\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35062-ea-wants-minecraft-on-origin-thinks-notch-needs-help.html\">EA wants Minecraft on Origin, thinks Notch \u201cneeds help\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Minecraft dev calls out \u201cevil companies\u201d for using DRM\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34468-minecraft-dev-calls-out-evil-companies-for-using-drm.html\">Minecraft dev calls out \u201cevil companies\u201d for using DRM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Notch thinks EA\u2019s Origin is a good thing\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34338-notch-thinks-origin-is-a-good-thing.html\">Notch thinks EA\u2019s Origin is a good thing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markus &#8220;Notch&#8221; Persson is working on a hard sci-fi themed game and he has shared some details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":35456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[3203,31,881,879,727],"class_list":["post-35455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-0x10c","tag-active","tag-markus-persson","tag-mojang","tag-notch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455","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=35455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35457,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions\/35457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}