Minceraft A Publish Mortem

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We've tried including secrets and techniques to the sport earlier than. Small issues, like obscure crafting recipes or bizarre habits, and every thing always will get found out immediately. Irrespective of how obscure we make a new feature, it is totally documented inside hours of a brand new release. This is awesome, and a fantastic example of how devoted some Minecraft players are, nevertheless it also means we can't really conceal anything good in the sport even if we tried.



So a while in the past, I did some intentionally obscure code in the title screen to change two letters round, making it say "Minceraft" (previous operating gag, there's even a "minceraft" mockup t shirt design we did) as an alternative of "Minecraft" on every 10000th game launch or so, and nobody found it! I was so blissful about that, I finally knew something about the game the players did not know.



Flash forward to this GDC a few days in the past, I'm doing an interview with Chris Hecker, and he asks me if there's something no one has found in the sport, and that i say sure. I ought to've said no, but I said yes. Then I begin getting emails and tweets about it, folks start getting excited, and realizing how minor the secret is, I attempt to tell people 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 that i inform him not to. Getting folks hyped up about an intentional typo is not really an excellent strategy to spend everyone's time.



There's a variety of cool stuff to study from this, though. One is that it Is possible to hide stuff in plain sight, however as soon as people go on the lookout for it, they will find it. Cats Another thing is that folks seem to need to get excited over issues, even if you tell them it's nothing main. Cats



I am impressed and relieved you found it. I will not touch upon it outside of this subreddit.