Minceraft, A Put Up Mortem

We have tried including secrets and techniques to the game earlier than. Small issues, like obscure crafting recipes or bizarre behavior, and the whole lot all the time will get found out immediately. Regardless of how obscure we make a new feature, it is absolutely documented inside hours of a new launch. This is awesome, and an awesome example of how devoted some Minecraft players are, but it surely also means we will not really disguise something good in the sport even if we tried.

So some time ago, I did some intentionally obscure code within the title screen to change two letters around, making it say "Minceraft" (outdated operating gag, there's even a "minceraft" mockup t shirt design we did) as an alternative of "Minecraft" on every 10000th sport launch or so, and no person found it! I used to be so joyful about that, I lastly knew one thing about the sport the gamers didn't know.

Flash forward to this GDC a couple of days ago, I am 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, however I said yes. Then I start getting emails and tweets about it, people start getting excited, and realizing how minor the key is, I strive to tell folks it is a very minor secret. That seems to fuel the flames. A reporter from a well known gaming site desires to run an article on it, and i inform him not to. Getting folks hyped up about an intentional typo isn't actually a good approach to spend everyone's time.

There's a variety of cool stuff to learn from this, though. One is that it Is feasible to hide stuff in plain sight, however as soon as folks go on the lookout for it, they are going to find it. Another thing is that individuals appear to wish to get excited over things, even when you tell them it's nothing main.

I'm impressed and relieved you found it. I won't comment on it outdoors of this subreddit.