thebigshaneon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Hackathons are nonsense”
Watching `notch` live-code is also very popular. 1: link Making Metagun 2: link to this video Making MiniCraft 3: link
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- Presented by Markus Persson, creator of Minecraft
- May be out of date. Uploaded 14 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Game developmentProgramming languagesGame programmingJava and the JVM
Markus Persson live-codes Minicraft in Java during a 48-hour Ludum Dare game jam.
This is some minutes of notch when he making his game minicraft for the Ludum Dare challenge all credits goes to notchWhy it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Engineers point to this as a classic example of rapid game development and live-coding flow.
PeterStueron Hacker News • Mentions
On “Nostalgia for Minecraft”
As I recall Minecraft's snowball started with geek dads watching Notch live coding and buying the game for their kids. link to this video
deaddodoon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig”
If you watch some of Notch’s old game jam live streams; this is exactly how he used his Java environment and is probably why he was so invested in it. You can see some examples here when he just tests logic changes: link to this video (Though, he restarts often since he’s editing preloaded assets also)